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.
Will you collect any 2023-24 Premier Hockey cards? Leave a comment and let us know what you think of Premier.
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.
Will you collect any 2023-24 SPx Hockey cards? Leave a comment and let us know what you think of SPx.
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.
The 2024-25 Credentials hockey card set was released in mid-July 2025, a good month after the ’24-25 season ended. A hobby box of 2024-25 Credentials has eight packs, with each pack containing six cards, for a total of 48 cards. When the set originally debuted, it was around $125 per box. The price dropped by the end of 2025 to about $110 per box, but as of this writing has climbed back up to about $120 per box.
Anyway, I recently opened a hobby box of 2024-25 Credentials Hockey. Let’s see what was inside.
Released at the end of the season, the 2024-25 Parkhurst Champions set gives retro flair to modern players. The cards are designed to look like they could be from the 1950s, with cut-out players superimposed over a bright, solid-colored background.
A box of 2024-25 Parkhurst Champions is currently selling for around $130 for a 20-pack box, plus one bonus “Retro” pack.
2024-25 Parkhurst Champions Hobby Pack
Each of the 20 packs have eight cards. Packs have six base cards plus two other cards which are either a short print, a parallel, or an insert. A box contains one autograph, memorabilia, or lenticular (“magic motion”) card.
2024-25 Parkhurst Champions Bonus Pack picturing Mr. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe.
The “Bonus Pack” has five “1953-54 Retro Cards,” which use the 1953-54 Parkhurst design. It is possible to get an autograph or parallel “Retro” card in this pack.
I recently opened a box of 2024-25 Parkhurst Champions Hockey. Let’s take a closer look at what you get in a typical box.
