First and foremost, I'd like to thank the wonderful people at Upper Deck for providing us with this box.

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Product Description

24 packs per box
8 cards per pack
SRP: $58.99 - $69.99

CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS
- Update your Young Guns collection, with an average of 6 per box!
- Collect 2 memorabilia cards in each box on avg.! - Including Rookie Materials!
- More Rookies: Find Rookie Playmakers Jersey cards and Clear Cut Rookies Acetate cards! - Both averaging 1 per case!
- Added Value: Pull 1 Victory Update card in every pack!
- Get 1-of-1 Press-plate cards from the UD1 & UD2 regular sets!
- Complete your 08-09 Upper Deck set! Top it off with great parallels: Exclusives and High Glossy versions!
- Look for UD Game Patch and Rookie Materials patch cards - both #’d to 15!

PRODUCT BREAKDOWN:
Rookie Cards
- Young Guns - inserted 1:4

Great Memorabilia & Signature Cards!
- UD Game Jerseys - inserted 1:24
- UD Rookie Materials - inserted 1:24
- Rookie Playmakers (oversized swatch) - #’d to 100
- UD Game Patch - #’d to 15
- UD Rookie Materials Patch - #’d to 15
- Signature Sensations - inserted 1:288

Terrific Die-Cut Acetate Cards!
- Clear Cut Rookies - #’d to 100

Victory Update cards
- Regular Cards - inserted 1:2
- Rookie Cards - inserted 1:2
- Regular Cards, Gold // - inserted 1:24
- Rookie Cards, Gold // - inserted 1:24
- Regular Cards, Black // - inserted 1:288
- Rookie Cards, Black // - inserted 1:288

Must-Have Regular Set Parallels!
- Exclusives - #’d to 100
- High Glossy - #’d to 10

Superstar Inserts (combined to deliver 1 in 4 on average!)
- The New Guard - inserted 1:12
- Favourite Sons - inserted 1:12
- Tales of The Cup - inserted 1:24
- Spectacular Saves - inserted 1:24

Regular Cards
- 200 Regular Cards

VIDEO BREAK

PART ONE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52sNtnlUjs

PART TWO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dW5MUCMDps

WHAT WE PULLED

Base - 155/200 (77.5%)
Dupes - 0
Rookies (Young Guns) - 6/50 (12%)
Dupes - 0

The base cards have a generic design with a full body, color photo of the player. The order of the cards is done alphabetically by the first name of the teams. The rookie subset is called Young Guns. It features 50 rookies. The regular set has two parallels, Exclusives (#/100) and High Glossy (#/10). The lettering and serial number is done in holo-foil.

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A staple of the Upper Deck series is the Victory Update cards. There are regular and rookie cards. Also, Gold and Black parallels for each card are randomly inserted.

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There are four other insert sets in this release. A sample of each can be seen below.

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Most boxes yield two Game Used cards per box as an Auto card falls one per case. Here are the two we pulled.

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Final Ratings (Out of 5):
Base set: 4.5/5
Fun: 5/5
Overall design: 3.5/5
Value: 3.5/5
Re-buy: 4.5/5

Overall: 21/25 (84%)

It's always nice to be able to open a decent priced box and be able to come close to completing at least the base set from the release as with this one. Though the design is nothing to get excited over, at least the photos have vibrant colors and are eye pleasing.

The inserts have a nice mix of young and old stars. The theme of the sets and their designs encompasses all collectors and it's refreshing.

The Young Guns are the highlight of this release each year. However, it seems there's not a lot of rookie star power in this release. Most of the top rookies were released in Series 1 and it takes away some of the value from the release.

Overall, the price is more than affordable for most consumers, young and old. The cards follow suit as they appeal to all collectors. With only a couple of parallels, player collecting is fairly simple and that's always a plus.

Once again, I'd like to thank our wonderful sponsor, Upper Deck, for providing us with this box and the opportunity to review it.

Wow...I get to reply to a Sponsor Hockey Break ! I'd say that was a decent box There...the Pogge YG, The Price insert and a couple Ranger inserts too...I always try to make a complete Upper Deck set every year and I agree..being able to almost do it in one box is a bonus..that box yeilded a coupl of great traders or what would be PC items for quite a few members here...Thanx to Upper Deck for the box and you, Tony for the Review and break

Yeh, decent box indeed! Thanks again UD!

Nice to see our second hockey break and first sponsored one!

Good to see 2 GU cards out of the box.

Very nice, I know the hockey community has been waiting for a long time for a sponsored break, nice couple of gu cards to boot!

A very decent box - the Pogge is one of the more sought out YG of Series 2, thank you Upper Deck for hockey's first sponsored break!!

Nice review Tony. Thanks UD!

Thanks again UD. That was a good break the Pogge rookie is a decent pull.

Nice break and review! I'm not too familiar with current hockey cards, but it seems like this was a fairly decent box.

Thanks Upper Deck!

seems like a pretty good box break, the cards look nice

Decent Break! Nice to see a Hockey review!

Love the favorite sons as it a nice way to show how some players get some big love from their fans and franchise. Nice break and thanks to UD.

DON

Nice review and break Tony,Almost enough to make me start collecting hockey again.Thanks upperdeck

Nice break and review.

Thanks Upper Deck!

Darin

Thanks to UD for this! It's been WAY to long for hockey!

Great review Tony. Thanks to UD for the box

Nice Box

Thanks UD

Mike

Very nice hockey break and review! Thanks UD!

PM me about the YGs if they're avail!

I agree that Upper Deck again provides great looking inserts again and again in design with a great mix of old and new.

Nice to see a hockey break! I'll be the one to ask.. will these be available like the other sponsored breaks?

Not a bad break at all, thanks Upper Deck!

Overall, I really do like this series. Nice looking cards, with some pretty decent pulls. Thanks Upper Deck!

thats a set that I always like to complete each year until the SP Authentic comes out

Great stuff keep it up UD

Nice to see our second hockey break and first sponsored one!

Good to see 2 GU cards out of the box.

lol They made sure to send a box that actually has 6 YGs and 2 GU cards.

Many thanks to UD for the box.....

Very decent break.... Some nice Rookies and not bad cards!!!

solid break...where are the flyers cards?!?!

thanks UD

Really nice break and it's great to see Hockey sponser around! Thanks Upper Deck.

As a low end setbuilder, I like affordable boxes where you can put together a lot of the set!

So when is the next Upper Deck sponsored hockey break? Hopefully next year we'll get all products.

What happened with the rookies and GU cards? Just wondering.

Nice box.