2024-25 Topps Hockey Stickers Box Break #1

Topps has made a set of NHL hockey album stickers since the 2019-20 season. Each year, packs of five stickers sell for around $1, with the album selling for around $2. Unlike Panini, who made NHL stickers during the prior decade, you cannot order a few stickers you need directly from the manufacturer. That means that you either have to get every single sticker you need in the packs you open – which is highly-unlikely – or you have to trade your doubles and/or buy the singles you need on eBay or COMC.

The 2024-25 Topps NHL Sticker Collection consists of 800 stickers: 600 regular paper stickers and 200 shiny foil stickers. That is the biggest set of Topps Hockey Stickers to date. A new twist for this year is that you can pull serial-numbered parallel stickers. Blue Foil Parallels are numbered out of 100 and are found once in every 25 packs – that’s about two per box. Red Foil Parallels numbered to 10, are found one in every five boxes. One-of-one Gold Parallels are found roughly one in every 2,500 packs. 

I used to build the hockey sticker sets religiously in the 1980s and 1990s and started to do so again when in the late 2000s. So, I was going to build this year’s Topps set regardless of any additional bells or whistles. 

However, the allure of getting at least two serial-numbered stickers per box gave me a little more incentive. Usually, I buy four boxes, which gets me 1,000 stickers. But with this year’s set being bigger than last year’s 685-sticker set, decided to buy five boxes, which will give me 1,250 stickers – including 10 Blue Foil Parallels, and hopefully a Red or Gold Parallel, too. While single packs will cost you $1, you can find 50-pack boxes online for about $35 to $40 each. 

Here are the results from my first box break of 2024-25 Topps NHL Sticker Collection stickers. 

What I Got in My 1st Box

My box contained a total of 250 stickers. There were no quality control issues.

198 Regular Stickers

Each pack of stickers has four regular (paper, non-foil) stickers, unless the pack has a parallel; then it only has three regular stickers. Out of the 198 regular stickers I got in my first box, none were doubles of each other. This puts me at 198 out of the 600 regular stickers for the set. 

50 Foil (Insert) Stickers

Every pack has one foil sticker. While Topp has referred to these as “insert stickers” in some of its marketing material, these foil stickers are actually part of the set. Unfortunately, I pulled three copies of sticker number 774, giving me two duplicates. Still, I got 48 out of 200 foil stickers for this set.

2 Blue Parallel Stickers 

My box also had two Blue Foil Parallel stickers that were serial-numbered out of 100: Rasmus Dahlin and Morgan Frost. I like the look of these parallel stickers, and getting limited parallels in a $1 pack of stickers is exciting. 

Breakdowns by 100s

Since I have to sort these stickers anyway – and I geek out on this kind of stuff – here is a look at how many stickers I got in each grouping of 100. 

Stickers 1-100

31 regular stickers
6 foil stickers
= 37 stickers / 14.8% of the box

Stickers 101-200

27 regular stickers
4 foil stickers
= 31 stickers / 12.4% of the box

Stickers 201-300

24 regular stickers
5 foil stickers
= 29 stickers / 11.6% of the box

Stickers 301-400

22 regular stickers
6 foil stickers
= 28 stickers / 11.2% of the box

Stickers 401-500

27 regular stickers
7 foil stickers
= 34 stickers / 13.6% of the box 

Stickers 501-600

18 regular stickers
11 foil stickers
= 29 stickers / 11.6% of the box

Stickers 601-700

25 regular stickers
7 foil stickers
= 32 stickers / 12.8% of the box

Stickers 701-800

24 regular stickers
4 foil stickers
= 28 stickers / 11.2% of the box 

Overall, I got a pretty even distribution of stickers within each grouping of 100. 

Progress on My Set

After one box of 250 stickers, I have 246 stickers (198 regular and 48 foil) out of 800 stickers. That gives me 31% of the set so far. I’m off to a rip-roaring start! 

My first box of 2024-25 Topps NHL Stickers gets a five-puck rating because the collation was great. While I don’t like it when a box has two of the same sticker – or three, in this instance – I can live with less than 1% of the box being dupes. Putting this over the top for me is that I got the two Blue Foil Parallels that were “promised” by the stated odds of one in every 25 packs. 

Anyway, I should be posting the rest of my breaks over the next few days. Leave a comment and let me know if you are collecting the 2024-25 Topps NHL Sticker Collection. 

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