2023-24 Upper Deck NHL Series Two Hockey Cards

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2023-24 Upper Deck NHL Series Two Hockey Cards delivers (6) Young Guns Rookie Cards, (22) Inserts, (4) UD Canvas Cards and (4) Parallels in Every Box*! Upper Deck’s flagship NHL hockey product gets a NEW configuration featuring and increased number of inserts per pack and an expanded base set parallel lineup! For the first time ever in flagship NHL hockey look for ALL-NEW 1-of-1 parallels including Young Guns!!

*Insert ratios are average of the entire production run.

  • Configuration: 12 boxes/12 packs/12 cards

Box Break:

  • (6) Young Guns Rookie Cards
  • (22) Inserts
    • (10) Director of Boards, Ecliptic, Instinctive and/or PC’s Cards
    • (6) Honor Roll and/or UD Portraits Cards
    • (3) Deep Roots Cards
    • (1) Monster Season or Glaring Card
    • (1) Blue Dazzlers Card
    • (1) Wildcard (Includes all Rare Ratio’d & #’d Cards)
  • (4) UD Canvas and/or UD Canvas Young Guns Cards
  • (4) Parallels
    • (1) Base Set – Outburst Silver Parallel Card (Veteran or Young Gun)
    • (1) Base Set – Clear Cut Parallel, UD Canvas – Black & White Parallel or Fluorescence Red Card
    • (2) Director of Boards, Ecliptic, Instinctive and/or PC’s – Sparkle Parallel Cards

CASE Break:

  • (6) UD Canvas Retired and/or Program of Excellence Parallel Cards
  • (4) Hobby-Exclusive UD Canvas Black & White Parallel Cards
  • (4) Fluorescence Red Cards
  • (4) Hobby-Exclusive Base Set – Clear Cut Parallel Cards
  • (2) Director of Boards, Ecliptic, Instinctive and/or PC’s – Sparkle Parallel Cards
  • (2) Yellow and/or Orange Highlighters Cards
  • (1) Pink Dazzlers Card
  • (1) Deep Roots – Purple Parallel Card

2023-24 Upper Deck NHL Series TWO Hockey Cards PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:

  • For the first time in more than 20 years, we’ve changed the configuration (cards per pack/packs per box). We’ve also increased the number of inserts per pack and have expanded the base set parallel lineup.
    • (3) Inserts in Every Pack, on average (formerly 1 per pack, on average)
    • (4) NEW Base Set Parallels, (3) of which are serial #’d
  • Series 2 features the next 250 cards of the 2023-24 Upper Deck base set. Annually, the Upper Deck base set is the most widely-collected base set in hockey. The set includes (198) Veterans, (49) Young Guns (the most anticipated rookie cards of the season!) and (3) checklists. An expanded parallel lineup includes:
    • Outburst
    • Deluxe (#’d to 250)
    • Outburst Red (#’d to 25)
    • Outburst Gold (#’d 1-of-1)
  • The returning & ever-popular Exclusives (#’d to 100), High Gloss (#’d to 10) and Clear Cut (HOBBY-EXCLUSIVE) parallels round out the impressive lineup that gives collectors a great deal of desirable cards to chase. Are you ready to hunt 1-of-1 Young Guns cards?!
  • Fans and collectors alike will be blown away by the UD Portraits cards! The latest version of this classic insert portrays star veterans and rookies like you’ve never seen them before! No two portraits are the same. Collect at least (1) UD Portraits Card in Every Box, on average, and keep an eye out for Silver Frame (#’d to 99) and Red Frame (#’d to 25) parallels, as well as Printing Plates! Series 2 hosts the final 30 cards of the 2023-24 UD Portraits set!
  • UD Canvas, an intra-series set that is a longtime favorite among collectors, features a collection of the top stars in the game today along with the best of the Young Guns and, in Series 2 only short-printed Retired and Program of Excellence (rookies that have played for Team Canada) subsets. Series 2 contains the next (150) cards of the set. Collect (4) UD Canvas Cards in Every Box, on average, and keep an eye out HOBBY-EXCLUSIVE Black & White parallels as well as the Printing Plates from ALL (150) cards!
    • Chase Card Alert! Look for SUPER RARE, HARD-SIGNED and hand-numbered UD Canvas Signatures cards!
  • NEW INSERT SETS!! – The latest edition of Series 2 sports an impressive lineup of NEW insert sets sure to please everyone, from the casual fan to the avid collector:
    • Director of Boards: This set showcases some of the more physical players in the game today.
    • Ecliptic: Top stars and rookies are pictured shooting the puck in this all-new set.
    • Instinctive: Goalie fans will dig this set showing top goalies making a save!
    • PC’s: This superstar-laden set boasts arguably the best player from each team along with three extra superstars!
      • For each set above, there are also Sparkle and RARE Gold Sparkle parallels to collect!
    • Deep Roots: This set showcases 50 foundational players! Keep an eye out for RARE Purple parallels!
    • Glaring: Each card in this set features a close-up image of the eyes of a star player! Keep an eye out for Gold parallels #’d to 100 and printing plates.
    • Monster Season: This special set commemorates Connor McDavid’s 2022-23 season, which culminated with his third Hart Memorial Trophy win! There is a card for each of his 82 regular season games played – each with a photo from, and some text about, the game. In addition to the regular set, there is also a Gold parallel set #’d to 153 – the incredible number of points he scored last season.

     

  • The Population Count insert returns after a successful 2022-23 debut, but with a twist. This season, each card will be printed on acetate stock! There are seven different print runs (1000, 500, 100, 50, 25, 10 and 1) of this unique 30-card set mimicking slabbed cards and featuring 30 new (not featured in Series 1) top-tier stars and rookies. The checklist is impressive and everyone will be chasing the low-print run versions!
  • The popular Honor Roll and Dazzlers inserts are back as well. Both are intra-series sets and the Series 2 checklists are comprised of only rookies. Look for Silver (#’d to 250) and Gold (#’d to 25) parallels of the Honor Roll cards, as well as Printing Plates, and both Blue and Pink versions of the Dazzlers insert! (1) Blue Dazzlers Card in Every Box, on average.
  • Series 2 Exclusives! The brightly colored Fluorescence and Highlighters sets return. They are only available in Series 2! The Fluorescence set showcases the top rookies. Collect Red, Gold (#’d to 150), Blue (#’d to 50), Pink (#’d to 15) and Green (#’d to 5) versions. The Highlighters set showcases players that produced a top 2022-23 season highlight. There are Yellow, Orange, Pink and Green versions to collect.
  • Please see the complete Product Breakdown attached, for more details!

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