It’s not easy to come up with a new trading card design. Just ask Upper Deck Lead Designer Michael Jue. “There’s a lot that goes into designing trading cards for me,” said Jue. “Being a sports fan myself, I try to think about what other fans would like to see. Then I take into account […]

The NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs may be over, but fans of teams who didn’t hoist the Cup are already looking forward to the 2011 NHL Draft in Saint Paul, Minnesota on June 24 & 25. The electric feeling in the building during the NHL Draft is just unbelievable where tomorrow’s superstars are selected. Upon being […]

It took nearly 40 years, but the Boston Bruins are champions of the hockey world once again! For the first time in 39 NHL seasons, the Bruins are hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup in celebration of their exciting, come-from-behind, best-of-seven-games series victory over the favored Vancouver Canucks in last night’s Game 7 showdown. And Upper Deck […]

In the past we’ve encouraged casual sports fans to give the NHL Playoffs a shot because quite frankly playoff hockey is like nothing else in sports. It’s fast paced with players crashing all over the ice with everything on the line. And tonight it all comes down to one game. Just 60 minutes of on-ice […]

Players growing beards during the NHL Playoffs is has become a fun tradition for the sport. In 2011-12 O-Pee-Chee we will be paying tribute to that tradition by producing a 50-card set of current NHL players who have rocked the playoff beard look before. These will be numbered the same as the base version, but […]

Each month Upper Deck spotlights one of its valued collectors to showcase their collection or pursuits. The great thing about sports collectors is that they are all very different in what they collect, how they collect, and what they do once they have the cards they were looking for. Kenney Der is a passionate fan […]

I got the chance this week to pre-sell Upper Deck’s fast-approaching 2011 Stanley Cup Champions Box Set. And I couldn’t have gotten any closer to the action unless I was playing for either the hometown Bruins or the visiting Canucks! That’s right, I was at Game 4 on Wednesday in Boston, hanging out on Concourse […]