It has been decades since you purchased a pack of hockey cards. You should try getting a box of Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Hockey. You want to get your kids into collecting hockey cards. You should buy them a box of Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards. You do not want to break the bank on your first box of hockey cards. You should buy yourself a box of Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards.

By now, you see where this is going. Buy a box of Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards!

Overview

Released on Feb.19, 2025, Upper Deck 024-25 O-Pee-Chee Hockey retails for $60 USD per box. Each box contains 18 packs containing one rare chase card, 18 base set retro variation cards, four O-Pee-Chee playing cards, and many more inserts. 

If you like sorting through a lot of cards, O-Pee-Chee Hockey is right up your alley.

The Good

"Fun must be always."

Tomas Hertl of the Vegas Golden Knights.

Upper Deck 2024-25 O-Pee-Chee Hockey is a fun entry-level product that will not break the bank. The checklist contains a high volume of hits for the 2024-25 hockey card rookie class and current veterans. 

Upper Deck 2024-25 Allure Hockey came up short with its offering of Macklin Celebrini rookie cards. That is not the case in Upper Deck 2024-25 O-Pee-Chee Hockey. Celebrini, along with Will Smith, Matvei Michkov, Lane Hutson, and many more rookies have a full offering of hits.  

Perhaps the best box that Upper Deck 2024-25 Hockey checks is that you can chase for cheap. Some people buy hockey cards to collect and some people buy hockey cards for the gamble.

What Could Be Better?

This is a tough one. Upper Deck 2024-25 O-Pee-Chee Hockey is a solid product for the price point. Autographs would be a nice addition to Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Hockey, but that would drive the cost per box up.

The same could be said if the product had a greater offering of jersey and patch cards. 

Perhaps the biggest area of opportunity in 2024-25 O-Pee-Chee Hockey is explaining the value of the product to someone who has never purchased a box of O-Pee-Chee Hockey. It is not the easiest product to understand. 

The photo variations are hard to recognize if you are ripping quickly through a pack. The backs of the red-border and retro parallels need to be checked as there are "blank back" hits. 

Hopefully your breaker and card shop employee is knowledgeable about the product. It is easy to tell someone to buy a box based on its price, but time needs to be taken to explain why O-Pee-Chee Hockey is a great rip or break to buy into.

Upper Deck 2024-25 O-Pee-Chee Hockey scored a 5.6 on Gawlik's scale, just slightly below 2024-25 Upper Deck Allure Hockey.

The 5.6 score is fair based on it being an entry level product that does not feature autographs and many patch parallels. 

Happy hunting and collecting!