The hockey card community has been patiently waiting for the release of Upper Deck’s flagship Series Two for the chase of Connor Bedard’s highly anticipated Young Guns rookie card.
The hockey card community has been patiently waiting for the release of Upper Deck’s flagship Series Two to begin the chase for Connor Bedard’s highly anticipated Young Guns rookie card.
Good news, card collectors… the wait is almost over as the release date has been set and the official checklist has been established.
Upper Deck announced that Series Two will be released on March 6th, 2024, which features a 50-player Young Guns set, highlighted by Blackhawks star Connor Bedard who checks in as #451 on the checklist.
Upper Deck has featured Bedard quite heavily in this set with 44 unique cards on the checklist, featuring multiple parallels with the prized ‘Gold 1/1 Young Guns Outburst’ being the main chase of the set.
Other notable rookies named in the Series Two Young Guns checklist: Leo Carlsson (ANA), Matthew Poitras (BOS), Connor Zary (CGY), Zach Benson (BUF), and Pavel Mintyukov (ANA).
Each Series Two hobby box will have 12 packs in it with 12 cards per pack, with an average of three hits in each pack. The main chase is the Young Guns and its subsequent parallels, but there are many other highly collectible insert sets including Dazzlers, Population Count, Fluorescence, and Highlighters.
There is quite a controversy brewing on the pricing of these hobby boxes, however. Series One of 2023-24 sold for $159 a box, but the current pre-sale pricing for Series Two has jumped up to as high as $329 CAD, which is nearly $200 more than what the product was selling for one year prior.
That is the power of Connor Bedard. Let the games begin.