Practically Everything You Want to Know About UD2

[RGM81]

http://upperdeckblog.com/2012/03/pra...ck-series-two/

As you are flying through packs we wanted to put together some information that would help you about the release of 2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series Two. Here is some key information that will help you as you go through the cards this week:
Autograph Content – There are absolutely ZERO redemption cards in the product. All autographs are live in the product. There are both sticker autographs and hard-signed autographs that can be found randomly in packs.
Young Guns Printing Plate Cards – There are One-of-One printing cards of Young Gun rookies from Series One and Series Two that can be found in random packs of 2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series Two. This includes the checklist cards. That means there are four different Ryan Nugent-Hopkins printing plate cards (Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow) available of his iconic Young Guns rookie card.
Andrew Shaw – Chicago Blackhawks newcomer Andrew Shaw hit the ice a little too late for us to get him in the main Young Guns set, but we were able to include him in the Young Guns Canvas set. His Canvas Young Guns card will be his lone card in the product and it should create a lot of buzz around that card should he continue to play well.
Pelle Lindbergh – There are 15 retired stars featured in the UD Canvas set and a notable name that made the checklist is Pelle Lindbergh. This is Lindbergh’s first Upper Deck issued card in several years and this card will be his only appearance in this product so don’t miss it!
UD Canvas Autographs – Fans really seemed to enjoy the Canvas set in Series One so the hockey team worked to add a little more high-end content to it for Series Two. Collectors can look for two different on-card autographs in the Canvas set of hockey legend Bobby Orr (numbered to 66 matching his rookie season) and Canadien superstar goalie Carey Price (numbered to 31 to match his jersey number).

Sid & Ovi Buyback Autographs – We have been including some buyback autographs in recent NHL releases of top stars like Sidney Crosby. In 2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series Two puck fans can find hard-signed buyback autograph cards of both Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. Crosby signed just two copies of his 2008-09 Upper Deck Game Jersey card. Ovechkin on the other hand signed 21 copies of his 2005-06 Upper Deck Power Play rookie card. Each will include a hologram on the back and a Certificate of Authenticity card with a matching hologram.
Hockey Heroes Hard-Signed Autographs Return – For 2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series Two the Hockey Heroes insert set looks at stars from 1960’s and included in packs are hard-signed autograph parallels. You can find autographed Hockey Heroes parallel cards of Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Alex Delvecchio, Red Kelly, Johnny Bower, Rogie Vachon and Jean Beliveau number to just 15 copies. Also keep on the lookout for a rare dual signed card of Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita numbered to just ten copies.

NHL Champ’s Content – As many fans know, Upper Deck has been pulling redemption cards from releases and producing less product in order to have more live autograph content in packs and reduce the use of redemptions. But what happens when we pull the redemptions and the cards come back in. We want to get those cards out to the public somehow. Such is the case with the 2009-10 NHL Champ’s Cam Barker mini autograph cards. We received them in after the release and after his redemptions were pulled. These will be randomly inserted into 2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series Two in order to get them into the market and they are seeded as a bonus autograph card. The odds of pulling them are roughly 1:13,500 hobby packs and 1:2,300 retail packs.
Short Print List – Will Upper Deck release a short print list on non-numbered autograph cards? You bet we will. Here you go!
2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series Two Game Jersey cards – Worthy of note, Group B cards are easier to pull than Group C cards as a whole, but Group B cards are more scarce individually.

GROUP C (1:53) GJ-AE Alexander Edler GJ-AV Antoine Vermette GJ-DB Derick Brassard GJ-DR Derek Roy GJ-ED Evgeny Dadonov GJ-GP George Parros GJ-JG Jean-Sebastien Giguere GJ-JL John-Michael Liles GJ-JS Jason Spezza GJ-LS Luke Schenn GJ-MD Matt Duchene GJ-MT Marty Turco GJ-NB Nicklas Backstrom GJ-NF Nikita Filatov GJ-NG Nathan Gerbe GJ-SV Semyon Varlamov GROUP B (1:44) GJ-AH Ales Hemsky GJ-AT Alex Tanguay GJ-BB Brian Boyle GJ-BD Brandon Dubinsky GJ-BR Dustin Brown GJ-CA Jeff Carter GJ-CP Chris Pronger GJ-CS Chris Stewart GJ-DK David Krejci GJ-JA Jason Arnott GJ-JB Josh Bailey GJ-JJ Jack Johnson GJ-JP Jason Pominville GJ-JV Jakub Voracek GJ-KL Kari Lehtonen GJ-KV Kris Versteeg GJ-LE Loui Eriksson GJ-MC Matt Carkner GJ-MF Michael Frolik GJ-MS Marc Staal GJ-NL Nicklas Lidstrom GJ-RM Ryan Miller GJ-SE Devin Setoguchi GJ-SH Scott Hartnell GJ-SO Steve Ott GJ-ST Drew Stafford GJ-TV Thomas Vanek GJ-TZ Travis Zajac GJ-VA James van Riemsdyk GJ-ZC Zdeno Chara GROUP A (1:4,624) GJ-AO Alexander Ovechkin GJ-JT Jonathan Toews GJ-RL Roberto Luongo GJ-SC Sidney Crosby 2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series Two Signature cards

GROUP C (1:720) UDS-AL Andrew Ladd UDS-BR Derick Brassard UDS-CO Cal O’Reilly UDS-DB Drayson Bowman UDS-JO Johnny Oduya UDS-JS James Sheppard UDS-KA Keith Aulie UDS-LK Lauri Korpikoski UDS-ML Maxim Lapierre UDS-PM Philip McRae GROUP B (1:2,792) UDS-AS Alex Stalock UDS-BA Josh Bailey UDS-CL David Clarkson UDS-DC Daniel Carcillo UDS-ER Jonathan Ericsson UDS-JE Jordan Eberle UDS-JN James Neal UDS-LC Logan Couture UDS-MD Michael Del Zotto UDS-MF Michael Frolik UDS-MI Brendan Mikkelson UDS-MT Mattias Tedenby UDS-NF Nick Foligno UDS-NG Nicklas Grossman UDS-PO Patrick O’Sullivan UDS-TM Thomas McCollum GROUP A (1:2,970) UDS-AD Adam Larsson UDS-AO Alexander Ovechkin UDS-AP Alex Pietrangelo UDS-BL Brian Lee UDS-BM Brett MacLean UDS-CH Cody Hodgson UDS-DA David Backes UDS-DP Dion Phaneuf UDS-GL Gabriel Landeskog UDS-JB Jonathon Blum UDS-JH Josh Harding UDS-JM Jacob Markstrom UDS-MR Mike Ribeiro UDS-MS Marc Savard UDS-NH Ryan Nugent-Hopkins UDS-PA Daniel Paille UDS-PK Patrick Kane UDS-PL Pascal Leclaire UDS-RJ Ryan Jones UDS-SC Sidney Crosby UDS-SG Sam Gagner UDS-SS Steven Stamkos UDS-SW Shea Weber UDS-WG Wayne Gretzky 2011-12 NHL MVP One-on-One Signature cards

GROUP C (1:7,016) MVP-CH Joe Colborne/Cody Hodgson MVP-PE Magnus Paajarvi/Jordan Eberle GROUP B (1:9,419) MVP-#1#2 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins/Gabriel Landeskog MVP-LBBR Carey Price/Lars Eller MVP-OS Alexander Ovechkin/Steven Stamkos GROUP A (1:34,380) MVP-DT Pavel Datsyuk/Jonathan Toews MVP-HO Brett Hull/Adam Oates 2011-12 NHL O-Pee-Chee Update Signatures

GROUP B (1:2,547) OPC-AL Andrew Ladd OPC-BM Brett MacLean OPC-DB Drayson Bowman OPC-JM Jacob Markstrom OPC-MU Peter Mueller GROUP A (1:6,136) OPC-AO Alexander Ovechkin OPC-BO Bobby Orr OPC-GL Guillaume Latendresse OPC-JE Jordan Eberle OPC-NH Nathan Horton OPC-RY Ryan Nugent-Hopkins OPC-SC Sidney Crosby OPC-SW Stephen Weiss OPC-TM Thomas McCollum OPC-WG Wayne Gretzky 2011-12 NHL O-Pee-Chee Team Canada Signatures

GROUP B (1:2,553) TC-AH Adam Henrique TC-BC Brett Connolly TC-CE Cody Eakin TC-CM Clarke MacArthur TC-DR Derek Roy TC-GN Greg Nemisz TC-KA Keith Aulie GROUP A (1:6,101) TC-CU Sean Couturier TC-EG Erik Gudbranson TC-JS Jeff Skinner TC-RJ Ryan Johansen TC-RY Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

[RGM81]

I am scared to think how much the Price Canvas autos will go for. LOL

[mingus_md]

Very cool that Upper Deck released all of this information about Series 2. The more info. I have about a new release, the happier I am about it.

[Sportfreund]

They still haven't released a 251-450 checklist lol. Anyone buy one or see it today at a retailer/hobby store?

And how many packs/cards are in the retail version...75 like UD1?

[rydlar99]

Sweet! My UD Signature I pulled today was Marc Savard, Group A!


Anyone know anything about Day With the Cup? I pulled one of these as well (Mark Recchi)

[jim bradt]

Talk about info on a set. Thanks for the info. Looks like I will be getting a few boxes of it for sure.

[Hawksrock0321]

Just purchased the Shaw Canvas YG for $7. Better now then later when it may be more expensive.

[bojohnson]

So technically Andrew shaw will never have a yg
That's not very good, they should have maybe waited till next year

[Hawksrock0321]

So technically Andrew shaw will never have a yg
That's not very good, they should have maybe waited till next year

yeah they should have, but being a hawks fan, i need to get the only one he has.

[Bauldie]

So technically Andrew shaw will never have a yg
That's not very good, they should have maybe waited till next year

Why? They aren't the only ones in the market.. someone else would've made rookies of him this year and then there'd still be no YG of him next year anyways.