2012 Upper Deck National Hockey Card Day Checklist and Information
Upper Deck's National Hockey Card Day has been a popular and successful Canadian hockey card promotion for many years now. However 2012 National Hockey Card Day marked the introduction of the promotion to the United States contest. Upper Deck distributed cards for the event, which took place, via hobby shops as well as through limited online channels.
Canadian collectors will find a similar 15-card set. The subsets are Rookies, Pride of Canada and Heroes. A Sidney Crosby Team Canada card will be offered as a gift to those making purchases. Canadian retailers London Drugs and Toys 'R Us will also be in on the action, offering over-sized cards.
2012 National Hockey Card Day Checklist - American
The American base set has 15 cards spread over three subsets: Stars in Stripes, American Legends and America's Teams. A special 16th card of Bruins goaltender, Tim Thomas, was also available with purchase. A limited number of autographs will also be inserted.
Stars in Stripes:
- Ryan Kessler
- Patrick Kane
- Ryan Miller
- Zach Parise
- Andy Miele
American Legends
- Willie O'Ree
- Mike Modano
- Brett Hull
- Brian Leetch
America's Franchises
- Alexander Ovechkin
- Henrik Lundqvist
- Pekka Rinne
- Ryan Kesler
- Zdeno Chara
- Gabriel Ladeskog
2012 National Hockey Card Day Checklist - Canadian
Rookies
- Brett Connolly
- Sean Couturier
- Cody Hodgson
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
- Mark Scheifele
Pride of Canada
- Taylor Hall
- Roberto Luongo
- Steven Stamkos
- P.K. Subban
- Jonathan Toews
Heroes
- Martin Brodeur
- Wayne Gretzky
- Mario Lemieux
- Mark Messier
- Bobby Orr
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Derek
Are the Willie O’Ree, Zdeno Chara and Tim Thomas cards only available in the US or will they be available in Canada as well?
Ryan Cracknell
The Canadian and US versions are completely different. I do suspect that most will be heavily traded across borders so collectors on both sides can complete master sets. The purchase incentive cards will likely be the trickiest to come by, but even then there should be lots.