Upper Deck Creating More Unique Experiences for Hockey Fans D. Edward Bochon | October 18, 2022 Upper Deck hasn’t forgotten the joy of being a kid and opening up a pack of hockey cards in anticipation of getting your favourite player. In fact, they’ve added more…
Hockey Cards Are Worth Collecting D. Edward Bochon | July 16, 2022 If you’re a hockey fan, chances are you’ve been a fan of collecting hockey cards and memorabilia. You might even be a collector who said you owned a 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee…
Stützle, Kaprizov Rookie Cards Highlight Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Jeff Morris | March 30, 2021 A resurgence in the hockey card market has timed perfectly with the most anticipated crop of rookies for the 2020-21 NHL season. And with the release of Upper Deck Series…
Black History Month: The Colored Hockey League Was Hockey’s First Organized League Jeff Morris | February 19, 2021 It’s not an untold story, but it is certainly a rarely told and uncomfortably unknown piece of hockey history. In January 2020, Canada Post released a special stamp and first…
Black History Month: The Making of Willie O’Ree’s Rookie Card Jeff Morris | February 16, 2021 I remember the moment specifically. It was the morning of April 15, 1997. It was probably about 10:30 a.m. Central Standard Time. I vividly remember it because I was looking…
Lafrenière Upper Deck Young Guns #201 Driving the Rookie Card Market Jeff Morris | January 20, 2021 The puck has dropped and the 2020-21 hockey season is underway. For hockey card collectors, all eyes are on the boxscores to see which rookies are making their NHL debuts.…
Upper Deck Tim Hortons Promotion Includes Alexis Lafreniere’s First NHL Card Jeff Morris | December 23, 2020 The annual Upper Deck Tim Hortons NHL Trading Cards program was launched across Canada in November. Guests at the quick service restaurant or drive-thru can purchase a pack of cards…
Jets Hockey Card Collections Aren’t Complete Without These Beauties Brian Swane | December 20, 2020 $1.29 million. For an NHL contract, that’s well below average. But for an NHL trading card, that’s not just above average – that’s top of the scale. A Gem Mint…
Gretzky Memorabilia Theft Case Results in 2 Arrests Jeff Morris | December 17, 2020 Less than a week after a Wayne Gretzky O-Pee-Chee rookie card became the first hockey card to break the $1 million barrier, two arrests have been made in connection with…
Gretzky O-Pee-Chee PSA 10 Rookie Card Cracks Million Dollar Mark Jeff Morris | December 14, 2020 In the past four decades, many hot NHL rookies have driven the hockey card market. Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, Brett Hull, Eric Lindros, Pavel Bure, Jaromir Jagr, Alexandre Daigle, Sidney…
Lafrenière’s Impact Will Be Felt On and Off the Ice Stephen Ground | October 5, 2020 Though the autumn crisp in the air typically signals the beginning of hockey season, the unique circumstances of the 2019-20 season mean that we are actually just days away from…
Upper Deck Revolutionizing NHL Collectibles Andrew Forbes | April 8, 2017 It was a night to remember at the Hockey Hall of Fame earlier this week when top executives from the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA), Canadian Imperial Bank of…
