SP Authentic and Trilogy

[Dlhdaman]

When are these products releasing and will they have new RCs?

doug

[odjickfan]

Trilogy will be released this summer as a 13-14 product with the new RCs.

[30ranfordfan]

An SP Authentic will be released as a 12-13 product, continuing with just the 'holdover' RCs (Krieder, etc).<BR><BR>I think it's supposed to be next month?

[RGM81]

2012-13 SP Authentic is tentatively scheduled for a June release.
2013-14 Upper Deck Trilogy is tentatively schedule for a July release.

Both will of course contain the rookie cards that you know and love for their respective rookie year classes.

[Gallinator]

Just to be clear, neither Trilogy nor Score will be "double-dipping" on the RCs, since the 13-14 rookies will have not yet skated in an NHL game, right? Won't this make Score a "lagging" product instead of the jump start to the season that it should be, necessitating a delayed release in 2014 in order to catch things up (if they even do Score next year)? IMO they should call Trilogy a 12-13 release (which I know is against what the card companies and NHLPA agreed to earlier in the year) as this feels like it violates the intent of scrapping a bunch of products in order to create a bigger and better 13-14. What, if anything, am I missing here?

[RGM81]

The "double rookie class" stuff will probably debut with the likes of Upper Deck 1 and Certified. Those are released shortly after the start of the regular season and will therefore be eligible to have the Gallagher/Yakupov/Galchenyuk/etc. 2012-13 rookies as well as the 2013 draft class that starts at the beginning of the year.

Trilogy and Score will have only the guys that started in the 2012-13 season. They cannot call it a 2012-13 release because there was an enforcement handed down by the NHLPA to UD & Panini that stated that only the holdovers from the late 2011-12 season could appear in the 2012-13 product line.

[Gallinator]

Understood - and I think that is going to lead to a lot of confusion and disappointment for those buying these products, which is why Panini is trying so hard to beef up Score with extra autos and now GU cards. Meh.