2014-15 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Cards

I both 2 tins and got a lot of good cards. 2 jerseys, 6 young guns, 1 young gun canvas, 5 marquee rookie, 2 rookie update, 3 canvas, 2 portraits, 2 hockey heroes all for 70$ lol. They didn’t have any hobbies in stock so both 2.

Loved opening a few of these Hobby Boxes, I agree that the O-Pee-Chee is a total waste and cheapens the series. But the Young Guns are great, the Canvas cards are cool, and there seems to be a nice flow of inserts in each box.

Young guns are hard to find

All cards look great!

Barry and Joel, to complete 13-14 set with the, heroes, canvas do you buy from eBay or just breaking boxes?

These are great looking cards. Hobby box break:

2 jersey cards (Belfour w/ Dallas, Brossoit)
8 YG (including Horvat canvas and Khokhlachev acetate)
Cyan Backes printing plate 1/1

Like the post previous, I realize that things could be a bit of a disappointment compared to last year, but I would think for the 25th anniversary of a product, it wouldn’t feel like it was “phoned in”. It’s like driving all the way across country to Wally World, only to find out it’s closed. A lackluster grade for a lackluster effort.

Looks like along with the unannounced (but expected) Acetate Series 1 Young Guns cards, there are also ‘Day With The Cup Flashback’ cards. So far I’ve seen eBay listings for Ron Francis and Mario Lemieux. Has anyone else seen others out there yet?

Also hearing rumblings that the Pastrnak Young Guns could be something of a SP?

Any chance we can get the groupings for the game jersey’s and rookie materials?

I think series 2 young guns list is better than series 1 this year.

Drouin
Nurse
Pasternak
Vasilvesky
Horvat
Paquette

Some other very good upside ones as well.
Then the unannounced Acetate rc’s

From the 2 cases i have seen so far looks like Pasternak is an SP

Drouin 2 per case

Filip forsberg
gallagher
Tyler johnson
Nikita kucherov
Ondrey palat
Barkov
Ryan strome
John gibson
Martin jones
Granlund
Frederick anderson
Mrazek
Lindholm
Zadorov
Ceci
Jurco
bjugstad
Raantaa
Tanner pearson

Yeah almost on par with this year’s. …
series 1 and 2 together would still not be 25% as good.

series 2 13-14 is better than series 1 with mack

Having only looked thru the checklist at this point, this is a 4-star product for me right now. I think the checklists are all fairly solid, even the Canvas, and I’m intrigued by the Portraits. There are more than a handful of the harder-to-pull cards that I’d love to get, like a few of the 500-Goal and 1000-Point Club cards and the Bure Young Guns autograph!!

My only complaint at this point is with the Hockey Heroes 2010’s. First off, I think it’s a bit silly to have right now, but I also understand the “need” to have one in order to “finish off the decades sets”. And secondly, and most importantly… They included Ryan Getzlaf????? Over someone like Steven Stamkos?!?!?!?!?!!!!! Whoever decided to include Getzlaf and/or exclude Stamkos should be beaten with a rubber hose, repeatedly, until they see the error of their ways. ;-)

I’m also not really liking the inclusion of the O-Pee-Chee Updates in Series 2. Maybe Upper Deck could cut the OPC set down and make a 300-card Series 1 and a 300-card Series 2 instead? At the least, perhaps UD could have made the OPC Updates some kind of special chrome/holofoil cards and included them with the OPC Platinum to be released later this year? I don’t know how that all works on the business side of things, that’s just my 2¢ as a collector. For me, the OPC Updates in Series 2 almost cheapen Series 2, in a way.

@Scott – Obviously there was going to be a “let-down” in 2014-15 after the double rookie class in 2013-14. I wouldn’t go as far as to say the YG’s group is “fairly awful for series 2 this year”, though. Drouin, Pastrnak, Griffith, Horvat, plus a few others, isn’t too shabby compared with the 2013-14 Series 2 YG’s, IMHO. Again, that’s just my 2¢, which, of course, isn’t worth any more than your 2¢ or anyone else’s. :-)

looking forward to it

Product configuration is overall fine but nothing special…. Young guns Crop is fairly awful for series 2 this year

This will be a bit of a boring set imho

Also not a family of cards from other sets (opeechee)

I’m in the same boat as you Joel. I have all the cards aswell Exclusives 1-250 , Shining Stars Royal Blue 1-40, etc. except the 25th Anniversary, I was gonna try and get them all too, but I stopped at around 50-60 of them.

Wondering the same thing. I’ve gotta think John Klingberg would be in there, but then again-he wasn’t the Dallas redemption in Artifacts for some asinine reason…

When are we gonna get the S2 Young Guns Checklist? Anyone know

First off for the Upper Deck Series of give it a rating 5 stars because, the Upper Deck Series franchise has been putting smiles on people’s faces especially mine. The Upper Deck company has been putting in work on the technology and design they use on these cards, comparing from way back in 2005-2010, Im really impressed and delighted to see how the base cards, inserts and relic cards came out this year in UD Series 1. I started collecting since last year and I remember the first pack I bought of hockey cards it was UD Series 1 13/14 and I completely got all base cards haha. But you see that’s the fun of it the excitement on what you think you might get. im really proud of Upper Deck and the series that they make every year it’s new, original, new faces, and different inserts. As of date I completed the 13/14 UD Series 1 checklist with every card, insert, exclusive, and relics, except for the buyback auto cards which is a bummer. But all in all the UD Series is my favourite product by far!

1st time collecting hockey cards being collecting topps baseball cards for 50+ yrs ,like series 1 hoping for the same with series 2