Hockey cards, collectibles and culture
Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2024-25 SP Engrained Icons Hockey cards. Each box contains six cards – including three autographed or memorabilia cards.
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Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2024-25 SP Game Used Hockey cards. Each box contains nine cards – including four hits, which are either autographs, memorabilia, or tech cards.
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Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2024-25 Black Diamond Hockey cards. Each box contains six premium hockey cards – including one autograph or Diamond Relic card, one base set or base set parallel card, and three insert, tech, or memorabilia cards.
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Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2023-24 Premier Hockey cards. Each box contains six premium hockey cards – including two autographs and two memorabilia cards.
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For the first time since 2014-15, Fleer Ultra Hockey cards are back as a physical card product. After the 2014-15 season, Fleer Ultra went away for a while. Then it came back in 2021-22 as an e-Pack only product consisting of digital cards that could be combined into special – and physical – parallels. 2025-26 Fleer Ultra marks the brand’s return as a physical product that comes in physical packs and has, you know, actual physical cards. The set is is also available on e-Pack.
Shortly after its release, 2025-26 Fleer Ultra Hockey shot up to about $400 for a 15-pack box. Each pack contains 8 cards. Perhaps part of the excitement about this year’s Fleer Ultra set is that you get four serial-numbered cards per box, plus one PETG (“Clear Cut”) card. Since its release, the set has cooled – if you could call it that – down to about $360 a box.
Although we talked about the 2025-26 Fleer Ultra Hockey set in dtail during Puck Junk Podcast Episode #245, I thought it would be nice to share a breakdown of all of the cards that I got in the box that I opened.
Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2023-24 SPx Hockey cards. Each box contains five premium hockey cards – including one guaranteed autograph.
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Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2023-24 Ultimate Collection Hockey cards. Each box contains four premium hockey cards.
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Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2024-25 Upper Deck Stature Hockey cards. Each box contains five premium hockey cards.
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Released in March, the 2025-26 Upper Deck Series Two Hockey card set is a continuation of Series One, which was released in October. Like Series One, Series Two has 200 base cards and 50 short-printed Young Guns. You get one Young Guns rookie card in every other pack, for a total of six per box.
A hobby box – costing around $230 – has 12 packs. Each pack has 12 cards. Let’s look at what’s inside a typical box of 2025-26 Upper Deck Series Two Hockey.
Flair is the latest brand of hockey cards from the 1990s to make a comeback. Flair was a brand of premium hockey cards made by Fleer, first during the 1994-95 season and then again in 1996-97. The 1994-95 Flair set perhaps best known for its use of thick, glossy cardstock and the abundance of photos – two on the front and one on the back. Now made by Upper Deck, the 2025-26 Flair set uses a design evocative of its 1994-95 predecessor. The set also reprises a few 1994-95 Flair insert sets such as “Hot Numbers,” “Center Spotlight,” and “Scoring Power.”
A box of 2025-26 Flair Hockey cards costs around $230 and contains 10 packs. Each pack has 4 cards. I recently opened a box of 2025-26 Flair Hockey. Let’s see what was inside.