The NHL’s Rookie SuperSkills competition, part of this weekend’s NHL All-Star Game festivities, will be held on Saturday evening, January 29, at the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, home of the Carolina Hurricanes. Only this time around, an eight-year-old from North Raleigh will be serving as the evening’s designated “Stick Kid.” His name is […]

As Upper Deck’s Customer Care Manager, it is my goal to help educate our collectors and fans so they can have a better experience with our collectible products. I’ll routinely post updates from what we are hearing over the phones and receiving via e-mails from customers in segments called Ask UD. I hope you find […]

I have been working for Upper Deck with our Customer Care group for more than five years and actually managed a card shop prior to that. As the Manager of UD’s Customer Care division, I find it exciting to be on the front lines, working with our customers and hearing first-hand what your experience is […]

If you enjoy the sports collectibles hobby, you probably have an appreciation for the old late night infomercials where guys like Kenny Goldin and Don West used to dazzle us with deals that seemed too good to be true. They were charismatic and funny and even I’ve admitted before that I miss guys like Don […]

When we announced details about our Collect the Set & Win promotion, we were a little pessimistic that we may not see a winner for all the different prizes. We couldn’t have been more wrong. We had our first winner after the first weekend when a father and son team went to work on putting […]

I picked up my lunch from a drive-thru and I was hungry, but short on time and needed to keep on rolling. The fries beckoned me first and my hand dove in and out of the bag delivering these salty slivers of happiness to my mouth while I found my way back on the freeway. […]

Talk about a memorable day. Robert Jansons, a nine-year-old third-grader from Oakton, Virginia, was selected as the grand-prize winner in Upper Deck’s recent  “2011 NHL Winter Classic Stick Kid” essay writing contest.  And his prize for delivering the best entry out of the 50-plus submissions that poured in from eager 8-to-14-year-olds living in or around […]