2017-18 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Cards

hello trey…i got a card that is not listed…if im right it s a steven stamkos clear cur young guns 2017-18 serie 1 is it, tribute rookie or real rookie ?something like that and whats the odd? thanks

On the checklist of the Centennial Standouts Achievement Variation, two cards are missing :
Patrick Roy & Wayne Gretzky. #86 and #99

I think your checklist is missing the shining stars “achievement” cards

Great product.

Hit my first high gloss Young Gun.

This is the best ‘flagship’ product of all 4 major sports.

I just finished putting together sets in binders for two nephews and one grandchild. The last set, I bothered to view the checklist. No base card for McDavid Or Crosby. Are you kidding me? I will not be buying a case of tins this year.

I can’t believe how horrible these packs were. I bought a wax box 24 packs of the 2017-18 upper deck series one hockey cards and i didn’t get a single rookie card, autograph card, or even a jersey card!! Not one. I have been collecting cards for 30 yrs. I have never felt so cheated and ripped off. I can only imagine how many little kids you have sold them to already.

I’m purchased 40 packs at the dollar tree today and I wasn’t happy when I got home I realized they where only 4 cards per pack. I opened all 40 packs and the where all base cards not 1 YG or insert… The package looks the same as retail packs and they still say on them find young guns rookie cards… A little bit of false advertising in my opinion…. UD is really going to s*** these days.

Always a great product at an affordable price point.
There are a lot of variants for the centennial standout set. I just got a Gretzky #99. Many are obtained through epacks. I don’t know if you will find them in boxes.

Not bad set. I just bought two boxes on epacks. Pulled two Rookie Portaits (Nylander and Boeser). In my second box I pulled MaCovy, Boeser and Yamamoto. No Nico with the MaCovy. In one of the packs I pulled a jersey card, exclusive card and a canvas.

BOUGHT 3 BOXES ALL THE YOUNG GUNS ARE THE SAME.
GOT A YOUNG GUNS ACETATE FROM 2016/2017 LUKAS SEDLAK #521
ON THE BACK IT IS SAYS 2017/2018 UPPER DECK SERIE ONE. HOW CAN IT BE.

Just opened a tin purchased at Wal-Mart. Average, about what you would expect for a retail product. 2 YG (Logan Brown, Marcus Sorensen); 2 Canvas (Mathieu Perreault, Mike Green); 2 Shining Stars (Nikita Kucherov, Patrick Kane red); 2 Portraits (Mikko Rantanen, Connor McDavid); Matthews, Marner, Eichel were the best of the base cards.

I give this four stars because the design is good and there is more value than most collectors think. While I am not a big fan of UD’s monopoly and of some other products this company has butchered (see the horrible Maple Leafs Centennial checklist), series one has some good rookies and enough short print sub sets at resonable odds to shoot for. The canvas cards are always nice and popular. The price point is better than those high end ridiculous lottery packs/boxes that many on this site complain about. Series two should be just as good.

Typical UD flagship product. Hopefully the price will go down a bit as the rookie crop isn’t as stellar as the last few and the long odds hits are stupidly long. Also getting really sick of seeing patterns among the YG’s. Yeah, you might hit the Hischier/McAvoy box but if you don’t, it probably won’t be good. Definitely for the set builder and YG collectors, if you do hit the lucky box, the rest of the YG’s can be had fairly cheap on eBay. My advice is to wait a few weeks and the value of these cards will soften a bit.

Bought a blaster box at Target. Every card had dinged corners or terrible shredding along top border. Classic UD quality. Avoid if you care about condition. I was told by UD customer service I would have to have every card graded less than 9 to get replaced. I AM NOT KIDDING. $22.00 down the drain. Glad I didn’t buy hobby!

Just broke open a tin purchased at Target. Pulled 2 UD Canvas, 2 UD Portraits, 3 Young Guns, 1 Shining Stars and 1 UD Game Jersey.

Great photography and unorthodox images (at least two cards in my tin featured players juggling soccer balls).

Not much allure in the chase this year. I won’t spend much this year but it’s still worth opening some packs.

I pulled a non-listed Centennial Standouts Photo Variations of Red Kelly #CS-54 in a red jersey. I thought I might list it here as it indicated to let you know if we find any others. Thanks.

Very good set. Nice design, very clean, although some of the pictures are a bit blurry. Good checklist. Main issue is the faulty distribution of the cards. I’ve noticed many patterns, not only the one mentioned above. I really like the black and white portraits, the clear cut acetates, all along with the base acetate parallels and all the other acetate inserts. The Centennial Standouts represents a nice addition especially with the variations, which is very baseball like. UD should try to renew a bit Shining Stars the same old design over and over again. All in all, a 4 stars product for me.

I got the same young guns except I got a Debarincat canvas. Overall the quality is great this year. I am looking foward to collecting. I like how they have added some new inserts to collect, especially the second six.

Common YG pairing in a Hobby box:
Barber
Chytil
Hischier
McAvoy
Tuch
Wallmark

See any of those names, expect the rest to follow. I’ve seen a bunch of breaks with this matchup.

After watching some breaks, Hischier and McAvoy seem to be paired up…but my box did not follow this pairing.
8 Young Guns incl DeBrincat YG acetate, Alex Tuch YG canvas, McAvoy YG
Overall I’m very happy with the box value, just missing the thrill of getting Leafs YG cards from 16-17 :)

Tass,

Did the same thing!

Great look to the cards this year, subpar rookie crop is not UDs fault and after 2 years of McDavid and Matthews, the hobby was due for a year without a truly marquee rookie.

Good list of hits and good variety and value for the price. No complaints

Nice product and affordable to the everyday collector. Love UD series 1 and 2 every year.

I’ve only spent $60 so far and I have already hit the Lundqvist canvas auto! Made this NYR fan’s day!

Opened one box and got a Kuokkanen Young Gun Exclusives and a Hischier Clear cut Young gun. cards look great this year

I opened 1 Box and pulled the Hischier & McAvoy YG, I don’t think I can do much better!!

I found the ratio of inserts in the boxes coming from one case not to represent what is described by upper deck. Ex; one box had 8 canvas cards (no young gun canvas), only 2 young guns. Another box had 8 young guns and only one canvas. The other inserts were also overloaded too. I bought 5 boxes and only one had the upper deck ratio of: 6 young guns, 4 canvas and the other inserts. If I were only buying one box and and got one with this distorted ratio I’d been upset. I won’t be purchasing anymore hobby boxes. Like the cards, but not the distribution ratio per box.

Trey
Any chance there will be a retail version or any retail hockey 17-18 products released?

A lot of good rookies this year… it will be a suprisingly good year for hockey cards– xcept for the fact Nico and Nolan not signing for UD..

Does Brock Boeser have 2 yg? I seen pic of his yg in Home jersey and some in away?

Ok thanks Trey for clearing that up.

Clayton Keller is in series 2 so why is his YG card image shown here? Leaving his card for series 2 is just another UD mistake imo when it’s already difficult to justify spending the same $ as last year for boxes/cases. Hischier and Mcavoy are not McDavid or Matthews and people already asking for $50 or more for their YG cards are insane.

My $0.02… If you’re gonna throw a Marleau 500 goal club in there, why not pair it with a Recchi, Tkachuk or one of the other omissions from that set? I don’t get the logic of leaving it as a standalone.

I thought the ‘Second Six’ concept was cool but the execution seems like a misfire. If you want to dip into nostalgia like this, I wanna see at least one blue Penguins jersey. And Simmer had all of like 20 points for the Seals. At least throw Gilles Meloche in there for the novelty. And Bob Rouse? Really?

The signature sensation selection is junk and not a single retired star UD game jersey?

I like the centennial standouts, but wish we knew which ones would have photo vars.

why is ron francis never in any of these sets he a hof and a member of hockeys top 100 players

The SP photo variations are for the centennial sensations inserts and not the base card I believe.

SP Photo Variations (1:1,000 packs).

I am looking forward to this and since this is the first year they are doing it I hope it will be every year from now on.

In baseball the variations are some of the most popular cards.

I wonder how we are going to be able to tell the variation from the regular base card. In baseball the code on the card is different.

Gee whiz, upper deck doesn’t even honor auto redemptions anymore. I am still waiting for my 2015-16 exquisite rookie signatures Dylan Larkin I redeemed 2 yrs ago. What really stinks is he has signed numerous cards for last year’s product. I called upper deck and asked them why i haven’t received my card yet and why is he signing cards in the 2016-17 ud products and i get this snooty women telling me that the athlete is committed to sign the cards. I said ok. However, is there not an order in which they sign them? Idk, i use to love upper deck but these days I just don’t know anymore.

As mentioned, UD S1 is all about the Young Guns. It’s never been about Autographs so the Leaf Exclusive Auto deal with the top two picks won’t affect this product.
Where it is going to hurt is 17-18 SPA & The Cup. Not many will spend big bucks on those products when you can’t get a FWA or RPA from the top 2 guys.
4 stars for S1 cause it should still be decent but you screwed up again UD, seems to a reoccuring theme with you guys when it comes to Hockey.

UD Series 1 isnt even about autos, it’s about the young guns, always has been. Not being able to get the auto of Nico or Nolan in UD product is obviously disappointing, and it does seem UD messed up allowing it that to happen. Patrick won’t be in Series 1, as typically they have put the number 2 pick in series 2. So this product to people will come down to, 1) the price and 2) the checklist of young guns. I will still rip as S1 is my favourite UD product. Wonder what the pre sale of Nico YG will be. A RC auto UD product I will stay away from unless they have vet heavy like Gretzky and McDavid ect. Problem is with that is it will flood the secondary market with there autos if they do that, which UD doesn’t care as we all know. I’m interested to see what this year has to bring when UD can’t roll out the number 1+2 auto.

Trey, That’s not good for Upper Deck. Even though neither player is expected to be a franchise type of talent like McDavid, or Matthews were the last few seasons Upper Deck has really dropped the ball by not having autographs of the top two draft picks in Hischier or Patrick in this years product. Going to be hard to convince people to put good money down to buy a ton of product when One: its a bad draft year to begin with and Two: you cant at least get the autographs of the top 2 draft picks either. Upper Deck is really going to have to offer a ton of incentives for collectors or slash product prices substantially.

The design for this years flagship release is nice and clean no problem there. The issue I see will be lack of big name rookies to draw people in to buy more product. The top 2 draft picks this year would have been in the 8 to 9 pick range in past years drafts. Another issue is from what I have heard Panini has locked in a few of the top draft picks this season to exclusive autograph deals so that could further push some collectors away from buying as much product from Upper Deck.