Hockey cards, collectibles and culture
Sal Barry opens a box of 2022-23 Ultimate Collection Hockey cards. Each box has four premium hockey cards, including one autographed card and one jersey card.
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Sal Barry opens a box of 2023-24 Black Diamond Hockey cards, hoping to find a Connor Bedard rookie card. Each box has six premium hockey cards, including one autograph or Diamond Relic.
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Sal Barry opens a box of 2022-23-SPx Hockey cards. A box contains five premium hockey cards, including one autographed card.
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After taking a hiatus in 2021-22, Upper Deck Trilogy returned for the 2022-23 season. Trilogy is back again for 2023-24, released in the middle of May. Since Trilogy is a late-season release, Upper Deck can include cards of Blackhawks rookie Connor Bedard, who made his debut at the start of the season.
A box of 2023-24 Trilogy contains six packs. Each pack has four cards. A box costs around $160. So, that’s about $27 per pack – or $6.75 per card. You get two hits per box “on average,” according to the front of the box. Hits can be a jersey or patch card, or an autographed card, such as Trilogy’s popular “Signature Pucks” cards that have an autograph on a mini-puck that is embedded in the card.
I recently opened a hobby box of 2023-24 Trilogy. Here is what was inside.
Sal Barry opens a box of 2022-23 SP Game Used Hockey cards. A box contains one autograph or premium memorabilia card, plus three additional memorabilia or tech cards.
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Sal Barry opens a box of 2022-23 Clear Cut Hockey by Upper Deck. A box is guaranteed to have one premium autographed hockey card.
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Sal Barry opens a box of 2021-22 Premier Hockey by Upper Deck. A box is guaranteed to have an acetate autographed patch card and two additional jersey cards.
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Sal Barry opens a box of 2021-22 Ultimate Collection Hockey by Upper Deck. A box is guaranteed to have an autograph and a memorabilia card.
Are you collecting the 2021-22 Ultimate Collection set – or chasing any of the hits from it? Leave a comment and let us know!
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Follow Sal Barry on X/Twitter @PuckJunk & Instagram @PuckJunk.
Intro/outro music by Retro Game Remix – follow them on YouTube.
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Every NHL head coach has either played or coached at some level before becoming a “bench boss” in The Show. Maybe he was a solid NHL player. Or maybe he was a minor leaguer who grinded out a career. Or maybe he quit playing after junior hockey and got into coaching at a relatively young age.
Thus, almost every NHL head coach for the 2023-24 season had at least one hockey card issued during either their playing or coaching career. Here is each coach’s “rookie card” if they played in the NHL, or “first-ever” card if they played elsewhere. This list includes all the coaching changes made during the 2023-24 season.
Continue reading “Rookie Cards of Every NHL Head Coach for the 2023-24 Season”
You are probably asking yourself, who are “Those Guys” – those two middle-aged men clad in yellow polo shirts.
Are they the team’s owners? Coaches? Equipment guys?
The ushers? Ticket takers? Concession stand workers?
Nope – they are the guys who produced a team set of minor league hockey cards. This might be the most self-serving hockey card of all time.