2015-16 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Cards

Most of this list is great but in the Young Guns Sam Bennett is shown as 232 and Ben Hutton is shown as 231. They should be reversed.
Young Guns Rookie Cards
231 Ben Hutton – Vancouver Canucks
232 Sam Bennett – Calgary Flames

Thanks anyway for a great reference tool.

Hi guys,

Even I am a big fan of Panini products, yesterday I opened 1 box of this product and, well what to write, I feel very pleased, I pulled this beauty:

2014-15 Update – A Piece of History – 1,000 Point Club Autos Update PC-MS Nicklas Lidstrom – Detroit Red Wings #/ 10

If anybody can help me with approximate value of this piece and what is the odd of insertion, I would be thankfull.

Series 1 almost always an enjoyable set. This year no differrent. Obviously lots of quality prospect among the young guns. As solid as ever with McDavid leading the pack.

Couple comments:
– Too many inserts / sub-sets! But that what you get for monopolizing the hobby I guess. Lose Shining Stars, and Canvas could probably be its own release.
– Too many cards produced to really hold value. Obviously printed more stock to take advantage of the McDavid craze, but once they hit the secondary market the prices drop.
– Trey, just opened my first box today and I pulled a Mike Richards Day with the Cup card (DC10). I don’t see this on your set checklist or in Beckett. Odd. Reasons?

Lack of quality cards in every box…barely covers cost of box….garbage rookies fill these boxes

the initial impressions are from the upper deck e-pack program

Has anyone seen the Toys’R’Us Red Portraits??? also I have seen a subset called initial impressions on COMC… wondering what packs those come from?

Loving this product!!!! I Had the most unbelievable luck. Went to Wal-mart and picked up 1 tin. To my surprise i pulled the Eichel Canvas and the McDavid Young Guns. I couldn’t be any happier with this product. Now i just hope their values hold or go higher. That way i can tell the wife i am making an investment and not wasting money.
Think i am going to try my luck again, just to see if it was a fluke or if all the tins just have really good value to them.

I am commenting about a box that my brother got and he got amazingly lucky! the box was a parkhurst rookies box and out of the twelve packs, he got: two young guns canvas three young guns main set (including larkin) two shining stars royal blue and a couple of UD portraits. this box only cost 50$ at wall-mart

I predicted this well before it was released. UD KNEW this was gonna be equal to 2005 as far as hype and massively overproduced not only hobby boxes, but blasters, tins, and the new $35 ones at Walmart with the Parkhurst rookies. Just nuts. When are we all going to smarten up and start collecting Leaf more? They have beautiful cards, always in pristine condition, and on card autographs for a portion of the cost. Makes no sense, and Panini’s doing the same to the football and basketball hobbies.

It’s like 1990 Donruss baseball all over again. Market crash upcoming if they don’t knock it off with these “exclusive” aka monopolistic rights to Panini for NFL and NBA, UD for NHL, and Topps for MLB. Competition being good is Economics 101….

The Mcdavid YG just went from $250 to $200 in Beckett. Not surprised cause the kid will have a hard time living up to the hype. Look for his Rookie cards to take a plunge in 2 years. Collect Eichel he is the real deal.

I really like this product. I just love the clarity of the pictures. I’ve been having pretty decent luck with the tins. I don’t know what you call the container that’s larger than the blasters, is that the Black Friday packaging? I do have a question… I do have a Connor McDavid and Ronalds Kenins, but they’re, in my world, misprints. What I mean by that is, Young Guns is covering 95% of the name. Back in my serious hey day of collecting in the ’80’s, those were highly sought after. Anyone else getting these??

I got a tin for christmas and I got a shining stars centers even though only goalies are supposed to be in the tins. one of the portraits that I got was the same guy as the shining stars centers (Evgeni malkin). all in all I like this product the base cards have excellent photography (as is typical of s1 and s2). This is pretty much the same thing it has been for the last few years

Bought a case, noticed that every box had all the inserts in the exact same spots. Nothing in this product to chase other than the McDavid Young Gun. Would have been better off buying the card itself rather than wasting a ton of money on a case.

Not too bad not too special. Paid $55 for a box of 12 packs which I think is a bit high for cards that aren’t high end.
Pulled 2 canvas
2 shining Stars
2 young guns
1 canvas
7 inserts in 12 packs is good but if the price keeps going up I won’t keep buying these each year.

Gord you are So correct!!! 15-16 UD #1 Tin WHOLESALE from Grosnor is $38.00 Plus HST & Shipping
Toys R Us 15-16 UD #1 Tin is $39.99 Plus HST
Real Sad when I can buy Retail for less then wholesale
This is Only because Pre-orders ($22) were not filled & prices INFLATED!!!! by the Distributors
What a Joke!!!
Collectors need to make a Stand & STOP Buying!!!!

How has it come to be that a Retail Store who Pre-orders 2015-16 UD Series #1 from the ONLY 2 Canadian Distributors that we can Buy from DO NOT get their Pre-Order filled & then all of a sudden the Distributors have the product at INFLATED PRICES?????
I have had many customers saying the YG Hit Ratio is not to be as it should.
This is what happens when the Monopoly is given, the consumer gets RIPPED Off!!!
Mass produced & overpriced.
It’s the 90’s all over.
I personally will NOT Collect any further & will be closing my Retail Store due to the Antics of UD & the Distributors.
I’m so Disgusted in the GREED of others!!!!

Product is nice, a lot of YG. I rate only 3 cause of the poor odds of hitting nice inserts and for the price that always going up. I bought 2 hobby ine the first week at 100$ each, hit McDavid and Domi in the same box and Eichel SP-2 in the second, one hobby after 2 weeks of the releasing at 120$ and the store I usually go made me a deal on a 4th one at 135$ cause UD changed their prices again to 140$ (paid 130$). Since 2 weeks, there’s no more hobby and I heard they were now 160$… After that I turned into the Wal-Mart parkhurst boxes… Paid 35$ and pulled another McDavid. So I risk myself to buy 2 tins. got nothing very nice but at least a couple of YG canvas. If you didn’t buy already a box, just go on ebay and buy complete sets. Even if you overpay, it will cost you more to buy boxes now.

FYI, I went to 4 differents stores and spoke with owners. They are very disapointed and blame UD for the prices. Also, one of them told me that ratios were higher than last year. That means, more expensive, less hits. I know there’s plenty of nice prospects but does it justify a praice raise of 60% in one month? Small collectors like me can’t afford those prices, so imagine when Series 2 will release with Eichel YG and McDavid YG Canvas…

If you haven’t start yet, just don’t do it. Too expensive.

Opened 6 Tins & ONLY 2 Tins had 3 Young Guns the other 4 Tins ONLY had 2 Young Guns

I rate this product low due to greed and as usual, poor quality.

JP – You really see a price drop in hobby? You must live in the states.

Brian Nov 25 – “Quality affordable hockey sets”? You must be blind and rich! Quality…LOL!

Darren A – I don’t think there will be hot boxes in series 1. Is there ever? I think they made way too much of this stuff to make hot boxes. Aren’t most complaining about their cases being garbage?

I see now that the Mcdavid frenzy is dying down that hobby box prices are coming down slowly.

Blasters are 24$ right now at Toys R Us in Canada. Even had a 15% discount if you paid with Paypal with a code. There’s no oversized YG in those one, but thought it was still a good deal!

Found the blaster boxes with oversized YG cards in Walmart. $29.99. Im guessing that’s the going rate everywhere. I’ve looked at different card shop websites and no one else seems to carry them. I don’t know if this is exclusive to Walmart.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there are “hot boxes” or “hot cases” out there? If so, what makes them “hot”? Has anyone heard of anything like a YG per pack or insert of some kind per pack?

Has anyone opened packs from Toys R Us… I’ve been looking for a Ryan Hartman UD Portraits Red, but can’t seem to find them anywhere

I have opened two of the Walmart boxes so far and pulled a Domi, Panarin and a canvas Eichel so far. Went to the Walmart by my house over the weekend and all they had were tins. Cleared out the Walmart by my work today of 8 boxes and have a case of tins ordered. McDavid, Eichel, etc. are just bonuses for me that I’ll have graded and hopefully sell. I just like to break boxes on Christmas Eve and Day so thought I’d give it a shot.

I purchased 2 blaster boxes from Target and the 4 Young guns that I received were misprinted. The players name was covered up by the Young Guns logo. Has anyone else had this experience? I also stopped by the local hobby shop and picked up 4 packs out of a retail box, first pack had a Connor McDavid Young Guns so I guess I cannot complain.

Kevin C. | Nov 28, 2015 | Reply

In case not everyone has saw this pattern yet, if you hit a Philly Medvedev YG, McDavid is ALWAYS in the box. FYI�

You are SO RIGHT………………….

Here is my update:
3 Hobby Cases, 6 Tin Cases = 9 McDavid YG, 1 Eichel Canvas……………….and 500 total YG cards.
The Tins are generating 1 McDavid per case, just like the Hobby cases. Tins cases are 1/3 price of Hobby cases, but only 12 packs vs. 24 for Hobby.
Just received a 20 box Retail case. We’ll see what comes of that. Happy Hobby.

Is it better to buy the series one or mvp

I see the oversized YG are popping up on eBay now, any have any insight on if these are in walmarts or in toys r us? Or do you have to go through your lcs?

I got two of the Retail tins and must of had some incredible luck, pulled 2 Young Guns McDavid’s, one in each, on top of that one tin had two jerseys and the other 1, jerseys were Riemsdyk, Hertl, and Sharp

I’m trying to find the value of the oversized McDavid young guns card. Anyone know?

Any word on the Super Snipers insert set. I haven’t seen any cards from that group on ebay as of yet? Are the starter packs not out yet and/or where can they be purchased from? Thanks!

In case not everyone has saw this pattern yet, if you hit a Philly Medvedev YG, McDavid is ALWAYS in the box. FYI…

Just one question, are the parkhurst rookies actually rookies or just inserts? I need some clarification. Thank you.

SJP: They are a short-print, but the number is unknown. According to the odds stated in the 15-16 UD Series 1 checklist here, the Red Parkhurst rookie versions are 1 in 15 packs.

I got lucky bidding on a Red Parkhurst Connor McDavid.
Apparently it’s a short print? Does anyone know how many?

Seems like Series 1 is sold out ?
Got 4 boxes for 135$CAN each (about 100$US).
Prices are going up…

I bought a box the other week for 120$… waste of money got the worst YG’S EVER.
Doubles in base which never happened to me for last year’s set. 2 tins same YG’S in both tins!! 2 blasters 3 YG’s? Really disappointed in Series 1 this year.

Upper Deck Hockey has always been the front runner in producing quality affordable hockey sets. The photography is excellent and player selection also very good. What I cannot understand, this year’s product debuted at approx. $80.00 per box in most hobby shops, and now prices have jumped to almost $110.00 per box. Why have prices jumped more than 30% in a matter of weeks? The product is not short-printed, other than the normal Young Guns, serial numbered inserts are almost non-existant, and for the most part, hardly any change from previous years inclusions (portraits, canvas & shining stars). For what you are getting verses the inflated selling prices (probually LARGLY due to the McDavd Young Guns) Upper Deck Hockey is not a wise purchase. The chances of pulling a Connor McDavid are slim at best, and aside from the Domi & Subban RC’s, there’s just not much there to shout about. I would not recommend purchasing this product. You would be better off to go out and buy $100 worth of lottery tickets. I’ll bet your return would be greater with the lottery!

Trey,

What are the ‘starter packs’ with the ‘Super Snipers’ cards? I haven’t seen any listed on eBay, and would like to get a Stamkos for my PC.

I bought a retail box at target today. I live in Central Ohio. The box was only $20–must be cheaper in Columbus. Through the first 11 packs (really only 5 cards a pack?), the hits were pretty good considering the product/price point…UD Canvas (not a star player–Faulk of Carolina), a Young Gun (Medvedev) of Philly, an UD Rookie Portait (Puempel), Shining Star (Ekmann-Larson), a Royal Blue Shining Star (Pieterangelo). As I opened up the last pack, I commented to my wife that I was disappointed that I only had one YG so far and then bingo…..Mcdavid YG!! Hope he’s worth the hype–I’m tempted to sell it for the 150-200 its going for or flipping it for cards I’d rather want (Blue Jacket cards) or maybe just enjoying the card! Probably will just do that….after all i’m a collector. That would be something different from what I see on this board.

Trey,

How do you get the jumbo Young Guns this year?

youre lucky they didnt sale 2015-16 series 1 at walmart in canada but 125$ for a hobby and get the same number of special card its a bite weird when you paid 30$ more than a retail ^^. I got one Young gun canvas :D. 2 jersey in 2 tin box too lol. I really like the jersey card .

Just getting back in to this hobby, not because of McDavid but because of the love I had for it when I was young. I just wish there was still a stale piece of gum in every pack waiting for me. I found some of the exclusive Parkhurst blaster boxes at my local Walmart yesterday for $35 each. Picked up 4 and managed to pull a McDavid YG, 2 jerseys, Domi Parkhurst rookie, along with several other canvas and yg’s.

Dave71120,

Well said. I think the collector actually asked Upper Deck to make the Series 1 and 2 product harder to get. My local shop had one of the McDavid High Gloss cards.

There is no difference between retail and hobby this year. Retail may be better. Walmart dropped the price from 49.99 to $35.00. I still can not get over the one box that I bought at Walmart, got the McDavid Young Guns, UD Canvas Young Guns Max Domi and a Parkhurst Rookies, Jack Eichel.
It just sucked that my first 10, I paid 49.99 but the last 5 I paid $35.00. I did amazing, regardless.

I broke 2 hobby boxes and am quite happy. Granted, two boxes is a very small sample size, but I did not encounter any collation problems – There were zero duplicates in each box, and I’ve already made the base set just from those two hobby boxes. No McDavid YG for me thus far, but between the two boxes the highlights were the Eichel/Larkin Canvas YG checklist, a Brodeur Clear Cut Superstars, a Shining Stars Legend royal blue Mark Messier, and an UD Exclusives Ryan Strome.

Those complaining about Series 1 already, honestly, you sound like a bunch of whiny spoiled children, and your juvenile rants make me sick. “I didn’t get a McDavid… I didn’t get an Eichel… I didn’t get a case hit… WAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!” Give me a break!!! On average there is one McDavid YG per case (in a perfect world). Look at the odds on the Canvas Young Guns – 6 per case, and there are 30 in the set, so there should be one Eichel Canvas YG in every *5* cases!! And, by the way, this is a HOBBY. If you are trying to make money, then I suggest taking an entirely different route, like the casinos in Las Vegas or your local lottery. If you don’t like what you pulled, I’m sure there are many people who would be happy to take them off your hands, or you could donate them so that others who would actually enjoy the cards could have them. Lastly, if you don’t like the prices being asked for boxes, then DON’T BUY ANY!

I apologize for getting on my soapbox, but the complainers and whiners are the ones who are ruining this hobby, and I have no qualms about calling them out on it. Would I like to pull a McDavid UD Exclusives or High Gloss? Absolutely, because I would sell it and take that money and buy a case or two [one of which I would happily break with my kids!!!], as well as build up my personal collection. But I don’t let the lack of “big hits” ruin the fun for me. If you want “big hits”, then wait and save your money for The Cup. Series 1 & 2 have never been hit-based products, and the hobby needs to get away from that “big hits” mentality if it wants to survive, let alone thrive, in the years to come.

Hi All,
My first post on here.
I buy 1 case each year, collect my YG set and sell/trade the rest. It’s fun (especially now that my kids are into it), but not going to pay the bills. Series 1 seemed to be about the same as most recent years. I had 2 cases, opened 1 and sold 1 (Due to the price hikes). I pulled 3 McDavid’s in one Case�.amazing! However……if it was 3 of Kevin Fiala I wouldn’t have been happy at all. I hit a Keith Clear Cut, Tatar Auto, nothing else special.2 cards short of the YG set. A few YG cards with triples. I would agree with most of you that there are issues with these cases. In recent years I never get triple anything and always a set of YG. The Shining stars need to go, just short print some canvas or something anything but these. I also opened 10 boxes from Walmart. Pulled another McDavid YG and 4 Green and one Blue. I also pulled a Keith Day with the cup from these blasters. At $35 ($70 for 24 packs), this is priced right, anything more and no�.Hobby @ $145 �..H E Double Hockey Sticks no! I checked 5 other Walmart’s and sold out (Waterdown, Brantford, Ancaster, Burlington, Hamilton). I did manage to get another 25 boxes in Cambridge. Fingers crossed for some canvas YG’s! and some more of the luck I had.

I cannot find any of this product at Walmart stores in Ontario any suggestions?? Thanks..

I bought a retail box but i dont h�ve received it from upperdeck now and i live in Canada 96$ tx in. My friend bought a retail and a thin box . 1jersey,4ud,4 shinning,6yg,4canvas for the retail and i bought a hobby box Because everyone is saying that hobby is better but i dont h�ve see any difference Except the odds for auto or other parralel is that right ? Maybe when ill receive my retail box there is � Mc David in it

If you aren’t pulling a Young Guns McDavid. You are basically burning your money. Set is garbage and subsets are garbage. It’s $140.00 for a hobby box with a 1% chance of a McDavid. $175 for a McDavid rookie on ebay with a 100% chance…do the math.

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where are the walmart boxes located in canada? dont see them in store

Bought three of 12 pack Walmart boxes. They included the parkhurst rookie packs. Got 3 Larkins (1 blue) 3 Eihlers, 2 Panarin and one red Eichel

Cost was $35 Canadian down from the regular $49.99
Pulled a Sam Bennett young guns canvas and a Panarin young guns. McCaan and Sam Bennett young guns too
Got a Lafleur and Lemieux Legends portraits and Roy shining stars

For the $105 before tax I spent I’m pretty happy with my cards

The Mcdavid cards will hold their value because he is a once in a generation player. He’s the next Crosby maybe better. Upper deck also SP his cards ~ even his regular YG ~ so if you’re lucky to get one it’ll hold its value.

Nothing is ever sold out in this hobby.
Thousands of cases left.

Once McDavid drops to $150 those holding them out will be sitting on dead money. This product is so flooded and diluted that there’s no way it can hold any value.

Distributors greed and general public stupidity is funny to watch.

Paying prices like he’s going to be a 70 goal 150 point player…

Shame on all of you. I pre-bought 3 cases back in August, $900/case, $850/case, $950/case. The Canadian show by Sunday, heard all cases sold out. The less the availability, the higher the cost, simple economics. Case breaks as advertised. I opened the first two cases, one McD YG per case. Figured that was the norm. Got my third case from Canada show, got two McD YG in that case. Ebay average on McD YG from $225-450.00, ungraded. Graded cards who knows. All my four McD YG will be graded by Beckett. Three cases, only one Day with the Cup, I think the advertised was 1:2500 packs. No Eichel Canvas, in three cases, but, hey, thats what happens sometimes.
Getting 6 cases of Tins tomorrow, pre-bought in August for $325/case. Now they are $456/case.
This product will be sold out soon, hobby and retail, I predict. Retail should be good with Shining Stars Goalies. Predict Beckett will come out with McD YG value $200-400 first monthly issue listing it. Whats left for Series 2? Eichel YG, but who else. UD promising McD Canvas. Enjoy your hobby!

I bought 10 blaster boxes from Wallmart. My first box, I got a UD Canvas Young Guns, a regular McDavid
Young Guns card. One of the Parkhurst Rookies was a Jack Echel.
The McDavid Parkhurst is averaging at about $75.00 and the Echel is averaging $40.00 on ebay. This is really good as the box was $49.99 canadian.
I got 5 Parkhurst Jack Echel’s but no Parkhurst McDavid’s out of my 10 boxes. I may go back tomorrow. A pretty good bang for your buck. Same odds from what I got. You get jersey cards too.

Hey Darren,

I live in Canada, and been to a few Walmart stores here and they all had them on their shelves for $49.99 CDN. I bet it is a lot cheaper in the states with the exchange rate, which is kick us Canadians in the nuts.

12 packs in a box, and I seem to get about 10 hit cards… a couple packs are all base cards. I wonder how many retail boxes are made. These Parkhurst rookie cards are nothing to go crazy over, there are going to be a ton of them… It is the young gun McDavid card everyone should be going for.

Joe,

Whereabouts do you live? I am in Florida and NO stores have the retail here and do not even know when they are getting it in. Then again, most people here don’t know what hockey is…

I bought 3 boxes from Walmart…. and got 3 black friday McDavid cards.

PR-1 Connor McDavid – Edmonton Oilers – Green in colour…. I am pretty sure they printed a ton of these and are going to be worthless. However, I get the thrill of just opening the packs!

There are no AUTOS in retail. Whoopy doo. They are 1 in like 10,000 packs of retail anyway, lol. I am putting my money into the retail….if I can find them anywhere!!??

Looking at the odds, I don’t see any difference between retail and hobby besides the release date and price

Even though Panarin didn’t have the hype McDavid or Eichel had, and that he was undrafted, his stats would indicate he can hold his own. Especially because he leads rookies in assists and points, and is top five in among rookies in goals and plus/minus. I’d say he’s established himself as a solid standout among rookies. I’m surprised his cards aren’t fetching more on eBay. Seems to be a outperforming Eichel, that’s for sure, and Eichel’s canvas is selling for five times Panarin’s. Unfortunate how those less informed about the sport are dictating what has more value.

UD did the usual good job with Series 1 of producing first rookies of what use to be an affordable product. As a long time collector of the YG Exclusive set, some of the prices sellers are asking for common or semi common YG exclusives is borderline criminal. Since when is Panarin a star?
I bought a case after buying into the HYPE and came away disappointed. Missing 2 young guns from completing a set after opening a case is not what I expected. Not pulling a McDavid or Domi rookie was a piss off and I will never buy another case again. Not only that, no patch, 1 clearcut and a few canvas cards were all I got. Not even a big name canvas rookie. 1 autograph is the only other special card I received. 1 YG exclusive of a common rookie and 2 base exclusives.
Worst case luck of anyone?

Any information on what the Black Friday packs/ parkhurst rookies. I see some parkhurst rookies on eBay right now and I thought those were the cards you get in the pack but that was on Black Friday. I contacted one of the sellers and they told me there was a bonus pack in a 10 pack + 2 bonus S1 box but that there wasn’t a oversized YG or a winter classic card.

Paul, it is simple economics that is driving up the price. As a fan and hobbyist I am excited about it. Also because I played my cards right and predicted this would happen – I scraped together enough cash to pre-order a whole case at a reasonable price. If they wouldn’t raise the price the product would sell out in no time. They’re still running a business and it would be dumb not to raise the price at the current high demand.

All in all it is a usual Upper Deck series one product – lots of rookies – all at the same odds as any other year – But the hype of McDavid has heightened this product – Lots of mid to high other rookies under the radar…
My issue is the Games that UD and The distributors are playing with this product – One Day after the Toronto show the price went from $115.00 Canadian a box to $155.00 per hobby Box – and limited boxes to hobby shops…. I here that some shops are charging $175.00 Canadian per Box
This is absolutly disgusting – this product is not woth that kind of Money –
Ud and the Distrbutors wanted to bring the hobby back -you sucseded now at your greed you are pushing the people away-
This Product is NOT worth the selleing Price in Hopes that you Hit a McDavid ” aratio of 1 in 7 if you are Lucky –
Ud – Grosnors and Universal – I am Thourghly disgusted in the way you are now Gouging the public with your greed!!!!!!

As I liked this product every yr because of it’s value. I feel with the the McDavid craze this product is not feasible anymore and what the LCS’s are selling it. It has risen 35% since release date. I am just glad I pre-odered my case and paid the pe-order price when it came it and not the ridiculous price that it is selling at. I am so glad that I pulled 2 McDavids, PANARIN Larkin, Domi, a Bennett and Larkin Canvas.

The young guns cards in my box are exactly the same ones in several other boxes I’ve seen opened. Upper deck has major collation problems. And of course trying to get a McDavid or decent YG canvas or exclusives/HG card is like winning the lottery. This will be the last box I open. I’ll just buy the cards I really want.

We all should’ve taken the money we spent on cases and bought stock in upper deck, then we’d be the ones laughing all the way to the bank!

I got a hobby box and a Sprong YG canvas was the only decent YG card. I did hit a Piece of History stick card which was cool but all in all kind of disappointing. But you ride your luck and cross your fingers. Sometimes you get lucky. I’ll be buying retail from now on. Hobby boxes just aren’t worth the extra cost in my opinion.

I feel bad for some of you who had a weak case or especially Chris J who didn’t get any McDavids in two cases. That’s just insane, and terrible luck. Did you at least get any other huge hits? I personally did quite well so far. I’ve opened 6 boxes of my case and pulled 2 McDavid Yg’s and 1 Eichel YG canvas. Also a Panarin YG, Domi YG, and Ehlers YG canvas. I feel quite fortunate after reading some other’s experiences. Those saying it’s like the 90’s again with over production and then complaining that they didn’t hit anything good I think are confused. They may have produced more cases this year but at least it doesn’t appear that they over produced the hits, which was the problem in the past. It’s harder to hit big, but that’ll keep the hobby healthy. Obviously some people will be very disappointed, but that’s the gamble. Would you rather there be one auto per box and 10 Mcdavids a case? That would be way worse for the hobby.

Yes, it is disappointing Upper deck overproduced this year. The thing is though, they created this demand for their rookie YG line over decades or consistent production. That brand loyalty has created value in McDavid’s YG which is the driving force of the product this year. They do not control the economy and cannot be blamed for the amount Canadians have to pay or the return value when not hitting a McD. How crazy is it though to be able to hit a $250 base YG at a rate of 12% per box? Parallels are rare, I know, but it’s pretty insane to know you could hit a $6,000 or $10,000+ McD parallel if you’re that lucky. These resale numbers aren’t inflated either…they’re facts and for a $100 box, that’s pretty awesome.
What is frustrating however are the retailers who stocked up on cases, who sell a case for regular price, then claim they’re sold out and start trickling the rest of their stock pile for 20-30% more within 4 days.

Opened 2 cases, ZERO Mcdavid,absolutely ridiculous. I’m not looking to make any money here, but when I open this much product and have 5 no name young guns, 1 of a couple decent otherboxess, and pathetic inserts you can’t try and defend this product. I fully realize it’s a lottery, but when you increase your odds and still come away feeling like you just got a prostate exam done with 80 grit sandpaper, upper deck can bite me, it’s obvious they could care less about hockey fans. Panini had hot boxes for some of their sets, upper deck has brought out some “bend over” boxes for hockey fans.

If you look back at the Upper Deck commercial for what you can get in a case, it states Look for the following hits…. They did let us know ahead of time this year. I was doing a price check and the box is selling at 99.99 at my local shop. CloutsnChara is selling it for $109 so the price has went up over 4 days. I am assuming it is selling out.

You do NOT get enough of solid hits. Lacks autographs. Does anyone know when the retail version hits the shelves? What stores would commonly sell it? Target? Walmart? Toys R Us?

Yes, all my canvas cards were base. No high gloss. I did get 4 exclusives, but none were young guns. I really don’t care about the exclusives and the high gloss, I consider all that stuff to be a bonus if you get one. I wish I had money to throw away, however I do not. I do expect upper deck to meet the averages they post on the boxes, if the fall one short, no big deal. That just makes me think- how mass produced was this product that they could miss putting a single young guns canvas in an entire case?

Nothing special could have a little more pop / case but it’s exactly what I expected. Upper deck needs step there game up. I opened a case and a half not one high gloss card. But like I said it is what I expected bring back national treasures hockey please please please please now that was a product worth the money

From what I read, the collector kind of asked for the hits to be harder to get so it is harder to finish master sets. The price is over a thousand dollars so the increase of a case price means we are pretty much paying for the McDavid Young Gun card, if you get 1. I got three in two cases so it is a potential $900 value for those cards but with taxes I paid around $2300 for two cases. If I sold everything, I am not sure if I would break even. Since I got the Overtime Gretzky auto, I can not complain too much for my purchase.
If you go on ebay, many cards are priced and fairly cheap prices. Some Portraits are priced at Buy It Now for $3.99, and from what I picked there may be 1 for three cases. Seems like all the case breakers are selling the product fairly cheap. If you got the McDavid auto, you are hitting the lottery.
I do like the UD Jersey cards but I am not sure if 1 per box places the value up. It will be interesting to see how hard it will be to get the McDavid Young Gun in the retail tins coming out at the end of November.

Sorry guys, I understand your comments just fine. They fall into one of two categories:

“I didn’t pull anything good so this product sucks” OR

“I can’t resell what I pulled from my case breaks for a profit so this product sucks”

Bottom line, for a “hit” to be valuable it has to be rare. If it isn’t rare (like many of the “all-hit” or “hit per pack” products) it won’t sell for much as the secondary market will be flooded with them. So either way there will be complaints as it seems that most of the people left in this hobby are simply are only interested in resale value.

I don’t know how much upper deck produced and frankly I don’t care. Oh, and most people I see that cracked panini cases in the past (and that continue to now for football and basketball) lost their shorts.

I’ve opened two boxes, and the most notable cards I’ve found so far have been a Jack Eichel canvas young guns, and a Marcel Dionne 1000 point club with a small chunk of stick embedded in it.

I broke 4 boxes from a fresh case. I had 3 YG of 2 Rookies in the 4 boxes & a pair of YGs for 3 other Rookies! No McDavid or Eichel., no exclusives, had 3 jerseys (2 being the boring white) but no patch. Had 1 auto, F. Forsberg, sticker. Being in Canada, this product costs too much ($99.99) and I can confirm that it seems that there are many less hits per box than earlier years.
While I figured I’d have to be lucky to pull McDavid or Eichel, I just don’t understand how I could get so many of the same YG in 4 boxes from the same case! I had a pair of Ehlers but my best YG was Panarin.
I’m done with Series1.

Any idea how many cases have been released?

*Mark M. You are totally right, but I guess you misunderstood the essence of the comments you are referring at. In general, if you’re not a big seller, is not worth it to open cases for money, because it’s like lottery. That’s one thing. On the other hand people complain with reason that Upper Deck takes profit of a situation where they have no competition. In almost all collection up to now, they reduced the number of packs per box or cards in the packs and the price remained the same comparing to the last year. I open a lot of cases of every collection and I felt (and I am not the only one) that for the Series 1 the hits are less than the last year. I believe that they produced much more cases, but kept the same hits, so there are less hits per box. If you’re ok with that, that’s one thing, but people have the right to complain that they pay expensive money for a merchandise that diminished in quality just to make more money for the owner.

My 12 box case was basically the same as others here. I didn’t even get the 50 different Young Guns (no Domi, Galiev, Parayko), but I did get 3 YG Checklists… yeah 3. Inserts/parallel wise I got: 1 SigSen autograph, 1 Clear Cut Superstar, 3 Exclusives: (2 base & 1 YG), 12 Jerseys, a host of UD Portraits, a bunch of Shining Stars (base & blue), and of course, UD Canvas singles. I think this is the worst case of UD I’ve managed in at least the last 5 years. 3 numbered cards in the whole case. In past years, I was averaging at least 6+ Exclusives per case, and 1 High Gloss. As for the 50 Young Guns, the most I was ever off from getting all 50 might have been 1, not 3. I’m just really disappointed overall with this UD1 release. I just feel that I got a whole lot less than what I normally expect from this product- not just dollar wise- but expectation wise.

This stuff seems overproduced, less than one exclusive per box? Recently those were falling one per box. Unless those were just extreme anomalies, did anyone pull similar hit quantities to years past?

Production level have to be close to 1989 Upper Deck. As stated other than McDavid there was nothing of value in the 6 cases I busted. Avoid Upper Deck this year at all cost.

Brad,
I am surprised no UD Canvas young guns. Both my cases were full of them. I think five per case. I did not get the Eichel.
My second case had no High Gloss but 1 Portraits /25 and only 1 McDavid Young Gun. I did get duplicates of other top Young Guns.
I was lucky from the start because one of my Overtime packs had a Gretzky Auto numbered out of 3. As pointed out above, the case hits are not there anymore. The autos suck as well.

This product is the same as every year, and its great.

If you are a true collector you will enjoy this.

If you are busting boxes and cases to flip for profit, as usual, unless you get lucky you will be disappointed. This is the same with any product (Panini or otherwise, despite what you might read above). It shouldn’t be a reason to rate a product one star because you didn’t get 12 high glosses in your case or whatever you needed to even come close to breaking even.

I did a case, it was a fun rip and I got a McDavid regular young gun. A few PC cards, and several base sets and tons of inserts some of which I may be able to flip for some $$. At the end of the day I lost money, but I don’t go to a movie or a sporting event expecting to leave with more money than when I came in either. If losing money is a big deal, then you are in the wrong hobby.

Always a big favourite of mine … In one hobby box I pulled 9 YGs 1 Exclusive 20/100 2 YG canvas and 6 regular YGs … :D

Collectibles are getting more popular ( check Tim Horton card set , sold out very fast everywhere in Canada ) and maybe could have been very present for the next 5-10 years like they were in the 90’s.

Unfortunately, Upper-deck have decided to produce massively with a bad USD/CAD rate for the canadian market. ( Box cost is approximatively 115$ with taxes and was 86$ two years ago ).

The average market value of a box for UD 2015-16 serie 1 seem to be around 40-45$ CAD for an average lose of 70$ / box.

Well do i have to tell anything more than it is like throwing money in air without any tax receipt?

I pulled only 1 Mcdavid young guns out of an entire case. I didn’t pull 1 single canvas young guns. Isn’t there supposed to be a canvas young guns in every 48 hobby packs? A GIANT RIPOFF!

When does retail hit the shelves?

Don’t know why we keep buying this product.. Bring back Panini…People spend their hard earned money on ((trusted)) collectibles and its like winning the lottery to pull a decent box.. Collectors will just focus on third party sellers to get the cards they want.. GO JETS GO

I guess (I have no numbers to support my theory) UD made so many of these cases, because they knew full well that people will go crazy because of McDavid. The result? Well, as Eric above complained, the hits are very scarce. Same thing here: I opened 5 cases and the only real hit I had is a McDavid High Gloss. Sure, this is huge, but I simply got crazy lucky. Only 1 patch, no numbered portraits, only 1 High Gloss and very few Exclusives. Upper Deck got very greedy and with every collection they seem to care less and less about the collectors. We really need Panini to get back in business.

Very disapointed with the hits… Opened 6 cases and got NO PATCH, only 16 exclusives, 1 High Gloss and 1 portraits #’d….

Used to get one patch per case and a lot more exclusives/high gloss…

I love the Portraits cards. I opened a case and was lucky to get two McDavid YG cards. The one thing I noticed was I only had two Exclusives /100 cards in a case. The one box with the McDavid Young Guns had the Max Domi Young Guns as well.
I would love to hear what other people got in a case for Exclusives. Note, that I did get one high gloss insert as well.

Anticipating tomorrow, opening some Upper Deck Series1 cases. I decided to skip the Toronto card show this weekend to open the product. Looking forward to the black friday promotion.
Too bad McDavid had to get injured last night.

I don’t quite understand. The Parkhurst Rookies are to be found only in the Black Friday packs? We can’t find them in the Hobby packs?

Where do you get the starter packs? Seems like they want you to go to 10 stores before you can complete your insert sets.

gonna get that oscar lindberg high gloss and don’t forget malcolm subban oh man what a great set of young guns

Thank you Trey… Could you check about the Starter Pack as well? Thank you

Could you tell us what are the Black Friday Bonus Pack?? I tought the Shining Stars centers/wingers would be included in the hobby boxes…. Thank you

4 stars for me…I think the young guns group is really great which is why it’s not getting 3 stars.

PROS
-Nice Design
-Nice Rookies checklist
-Potentially alot of fun to open boxes at a not-too-crazy price (canadians paying more than usual this year though)

CONS
-Almost exactly the same configuration as previous years…I don’t know why they don’t innovate more with the configuration of the products…
-I hate that they make the insert sets such that you can’t get them all from hobby boxes (shining stars being the worst example)…

Any speculative guesses on box prices?