2016-17 Upper Deck Trilogy Hockey Cards

This product should be no more than $100 CDN per box, that is my main argument for 3 stars but it is a nice product especially if you love the Leafs (I don’t) as 90% of boxes I have seen broken will contain at least one Leaf hit. I totally agree with above posts that getting in on team random group breaks can be a complete bust (more than likely) – I have been on both ends of the spectrum, landing Toronto twice at $55 for a double up (a big pile of Nylander’s #’d as low as 8, Gilmour HOF sig puck but zero Matthews’) and getting Minnesota, Vancouver, etc in others. If you can find a box at a decent price, I recommend giving it a go but my overall rating is this product is, at the moment, overpriced and (I know, Hippocritical) avoid team random group breaks!

Despite the lack of hard autos in the base set, I do love this product. The foil cards are always an eye-catcher and the rookie crop this year has been fantastic. I’ve been chasing down the hard to get Level 3 autos and the cool patch parallels too. It’s been fun and my set to collect this year. Thanks Upper Deck!

No value at all in the product. It’s like liting your money on fire. UD should be ashamed!

Can be very kind or very very bad – especially if you land the wrong teams in a group break. I have had both sides of the stick on this. On the one hand, I have randomed Toronto a few times and at least 2 decent Leaf cards come out of a case. I also landed Minny and Tampa (same break). I got nothing and referred to this checklist. 7 total cards featuring those teams (not including parallels)! I think 1 for Minny. If you are breaking this yourself, there are many nice rookies to be had! If you decide on a group random, oh man – feast or famine. Recommend for rookie, base set, and blue parallel (/849) as the set is relatively small and the /849 cards are plentiful and nice looking. For team collectors, quite a few are hardly represented.

Agree with the last two posters… This is a pretty compelling set if you like to collect a mix of young and past stars… Price point isn’t crazy, and the resale (if that’s what you judge product on) is good…

Well said Damone. Agree 100% with you buddy.

good stuff. A lot of the commenters seem to think you should get your money back with every box you buy, if you are hoping for that get out of the hobby. did well with a case and an extra 3 boxes – the extra 3 boxes produced a great hit nylander and Matthews dual puck 5 of 5. the case was okay got a nylander black auto, laine, marner and the Columbus defensemen also got messier hall of fame puck to 5. it would be nice if we didn’t have posts about how bad the product is. I’m a collector so east coast talk about something good. if you think its a Ponzi scheme get out of
collecting. let’s hear about the good pulls from you guys out there. I don’t like being called dumb. I like the rush when I get the big hit — some people play the slots others play the horses and some gamble on football games.

3 stars for me. A nice and simple collection, with few subsets. With a case you can built almost the entire rookie collection and you also have a few extras. The design is nice, no damaged cards. The puck signatures is always a beautiful set, especially when we get to see the actual autos. Ice scripts is one of my favourites, although I would love to see amore realistic ice design, with scratches and everything. On the other hand, the high serial numbers make the blue base parallels a bit futile. Same thing could be said about the rookie first class. They should have eliminated at least one class. As for the profitability, I didn’t make my money because I didn’t have any major hit, but this is how the hobby works. I’m not mad, since for me Trilogy is a very nice set and you cannot always win. All in all, a decent product.

The cards look nice, but buying packs and boxes is pointless, you will lose money on most cases unless you get a really good hit. And why do we get up to 4 base cards (numbered) as hits in a box? What a waste. Some boxes don’t even have an auto Rookie card. The last two years in Trilogy and SP Authentic (the only two I generally collect) have been a total waste of money. I’m pissed off with Upper Deck for the lack of value/return in boxes – I’m buying no more.

Have posted here a few times – have lost all interest in this hobby in very short order. Seriously, you all need to give your heads a shake, or better yet, discuss the “modern” hockey card hobby with someone who has no clue about it. You will quickly find you’re all dupes (me included there for a while).

Upper deck is a ponzi scheme. It’s business model is based on fairy dust hence I suspect the rumblings of the sketchy financial situation the company is in. Upper deck is a private company – ever wonder why no major company involved in the hobby world or, perhaps, a big entertainment conglomerate have not bought upper deck yet? Seems kinda weird yeah? The money is in selling your private company and cashing out. How come the guys at upper deck haven’t done that yet? I suspect it’s because potential buyers recognize its simply smoke and mirrors with no real value. And borderline criminal.
Anyway I hope many of you finally realize the modern hockey card hobby, with only 1 provider (a monopoly I think……), is a lose lose lose proposition. I can seriously see some people getting into major trouble in terms of addiction and debt buying this stuff. It is 100% no different than gambling except you’re playing at the high roller table ($150-$900 / box) without even realising it. Would any of you play blackjack at the $500 min table? I suspect not many. But you’re happy to do that with hockey cards?

Sure you can sell your cards on ebay. But do get ready for tons of non paying, degenerate buyers. That’s a whole different story…….

Anyway. Please wake up.

Product should be revamped or removed. They improved the puck signatures, but the rest is tired. UD doesn’t really seem to be trying to do anything but maintain margin these days.

Time to get rid of sets like these. Too much of the same and in the end it means nothing. I think its time for us to all have a voice here and get Upper Deck to get in gear.

Upper Deck, O-Pee-Chee I understand. Parkhurst looks pretty good but we are missing a lot of cards from a lot of players and these should be seen as a chance to celbrate hockey not just make money. If its a good product you will make money.

Very impressed by the quality of this set and the great potential it offers. Will buy a case and see what I get !!

And I forgot…It seems that finally they listen to the many complaints regarding the golden markers used for the signatures on pucks. Many of them were barely noticeable. This year, from what I can see in the pictures, they used a light-blue colour which is much more visible.

I totally understand why people are complaining about this product: the scarcity of the number of teams in the rookie set makes it unappealing for some of them. Of course, the random teams box breaks may become a total loss of money. Vancouver and Ottawa are only two examples out of many. BUT, at the same time, this is a product with very few sets and number of Rookies, which means the chances to hit a decent card are increased. Besides the Base set and the Rookie set with its 3 levels, there are the Puck Signatures, Ice Scripts, and Triptychs (Materials and Materials/Auto). I’m not saying every box will have a High End Laine or Matthews or that every box will break even. But I think that the chances to pull a good signature or a good rookie are much better than with other products. Personally I like this kind of items, were the good rookies are concentrated and the number of sets is quite limited. Certainly, this is unfair for a Canucks fan, but a Maple Leafs fan will find this product quite worthy. I will wait for the grading of the product, after I open my cases, but this is one of my favorites. On the negative side, while I love its simplicity, I feel that there’s no innovative initiative here. I understand that the sets I named in the lines above are the trademark of the collection, and I don’t complain about that. Every product needs something to be recognized by, but I would also have expected something new.

Have to agree an other expensive product with no real value. and already box breakers are advertising team random at $55.00 a spot for worthless product last years had more rookies these years is less and off course the hype with Mathews just like last year with McDavid. The amount of product 1 company is forking out is way too much just imagine if score-fleer-topps-donruss-pacific were still around how many products would come out every month and at the current price levels we see for junk-mid decent a collector would need 5k-10k to buy 1-2 boxes of each product. this is worse then the 1990s as still too much garbage product and way over inflated in price. Better yet have breakers who are making money hand over fist just buy the cases from upper deck and open them and then let them sell card by card then will see how long breakers will be around. Collectors fault don’t buy over priced wax boxes or teams breaks. you will learn the hard way in the long run when your out $$$$$$$$$$$$

I would like to thank UD for not including any Canucks’ rookies in this product. You have saved my wallet from any pain. Anyone thinking of joining a break to try and hit a Canuck (unless you want a Sedin base), better to go to a casino, your money will be so better spent.

From a quick scan, teams with no rookies in this product: Anaheim, Colorado, Dallas, Florida, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Nashville, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Jose, Vancouver, and Washington.

Yes more than one third of the NHL teams do not have a rookie. Get ready to be skunked big time in team random breaks if you have my luck. Best to wait till spX or whatever product with rookie updates to buy boxes or join breaks.

Is upper deck even trying anymore. Same stuff every year. Their products are different shades of white