2015-16 Upper Deck Premier Hockey Cards

I agree with most everyone about Upper Deck all together this year especially Premier. I shelled out $1600 cdn for an inner case and would be lucky to get $600 for all the cards pulled. End of the day you might as well just buy the cards you want off ebay and loose out on the fun of opening a pack. Over the last year on all the boxes I have opened I would give it a 50% loss which you can olnly take for so long.

That’s been the problem of UD for a long time. High priced boxes and mostly worthless cards and poor quality control.

When you pull a Retro McDavid Auto Patch /49, and a Gretzky Auto /49 from 7 packs, and you still can’t break even, you know the product is a massive overpriced disaster. More than half of the cards (26/50) sold for less than $5. Product has a high end price, and delivers a multitude of low end cards.

Premier, for me is definitely better looking than Ultimate by far and has the edge on UD black. The cards seem to be in better shape too. Orr auto and McDavid 5/5 in the one master I watched…Other master included McDavid patch auto /15 hat, Larkin Patch auto redem and Eichel patch /49 which was mine. I like it!

It was very hard not to buy into any breaks but after watching 20 case breaks on opening night, I come away from Premier a little jaded. I know when they are showcasing the product, before it releases, we are all going ga-ga over the pictures. However….watching the 1st 3 cards of each box break you see that negligible value. I loved Premier last year and I do love the design & look & feel of these cards but for a price point of $320+ (CDN)/box, PLEASE STOP USING TOILET PAPER PATCHES. Even if UD eliminated just the white patches, the cards would be so much better off. I understand costs, etc.. but high-end releases like Premier & CUP should NEVER have a single color patch. They should be 2 colors minimum. You want to give us single color patches? Then do it in the low-end products please.

For those looking to hit the jackpot with Mickey Dee, the odds for hitting anything Edmonton related look pretty close to those odds in SPGU. I give UD credit for not trying to overload McD in this release to try & retain card value. It’s hard to hit him in Premier.

Did anyone else notice how the online breakers seemed to have trouble filling team selects on release night? Only the randoms seemed to fill up.

I love hockey cards & I really like some of the cards here (ie. acetate rookie patches, mega patches, etc.) so good job there UD. There are some absolutely deadly looking cards here but I am not sure I can afford anything other than random breaks and honestly, dropping $65 cdn/random to come away with a base card of anyone makes you re-evaluate cards in general.

Next release is the CUP & based on the rumors for pricing, UD might need to choke on their remaining 15-16 products to get the point of discontent amongst us.

While it looks much nicer then Ultimate, it really is a nice looking design, the content is not worth half the price. There is zero ingenuity left at Upper Deck. Nothing they are doing in hockey this year is unique or clever. Just McDavid or Die basically. Most die

I watched many box breaks and this is again a one star product. Let’s say I would give it a 1.5 stars because I had the impression that it was SLIGHTLY better than Black and Ultimate, and the quality of the edges and corners is better too, but still…Same old things : poor players, monochromatic “patches” (see damone, the collector above me), no serial numbers for all the cards or very high serial numbers. I don’t expect 100% of the value, especially with High End products, and I know virtually that every High End product is a loss in terms of money, but with Black and Ultimate I had a big 75% of loses, which is unacceptable. I also understand that is very difficult to put a price on the pleasure of opening boxes and discovering the cards. In the end that’s why collectors collect. They expect to “lose” money, because this is not necessarily meant to be about making profit at any box break. At the same time, there must be an equilibrium. I’m convinced that even the most crazy collector loses his enthusiasm after paying a buck load of money and pulling only monochromatic patches, no name players and very high serial numbered cards, and perhaps here and there a Larkin. I cannot but congratulate myself for not buying this product, after the break boxes I saw. All in all, I will not rate it here because I didn’t purchase the product, but I only wanted to share my opinion about it.

broke 9 tins, best cards were domi acetate rookie auto to 199 and larkin gold rookie patch; bad part was domi was a redemption and larkin patch was single color. I am a collector so I like to keep the good cards I get when I break wax. however, the best cards are a redemption and a poor patch, so I will probably put everything I got on the bay. not very good for a product carrying this price per tin. big patches are best cards in the set however I think they increased the number for each player versus what they were last year. everything I got was hand numbered in the 20s.

5 Nit rating the set, rather I am rating your great job on the spread sheet checklist. Excellent. Thanks.

Great news, really loved the 2014-15 UD Premier. Now I’m trying to put together Girgensons sleeve number.
Price for the hobby box will be up in the sky and if I would manage to buy one hobby box I totally would bankrupt, but I still love this stuff.