Your 2011-12 Upper Deck Series I Young Guns checklist has been released by Upper Deck headlined by Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Adam Larsson, Cody Hodgson, and Sean Couturier. Young Guns rookies are some of the hottest NHL rookie cards of the season year after year with people trying to complete sets of them and getting rookies of the hottest new players on the ice.
Are you looking for the 2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns checklist?
Here is the 2011-12 Upper Deck Series I Young Guns checklist (courtesy of the Upper Deck blog):
201 Devante Smith-Pelly Anaheim
202 Maxime Macenauer Anaheim
203 Greg Nemisz Calgary
204 Roman Horak Calgary
205 Justin Faulk Carolina
206 Marcus Kruger Chicago
207 Brandon Saad Chicago
208 Gabriel Landeskog Colorado
209 Cameron Gaunce Colorado
210 John Moore Columbus
211 David Savard Columbus
212 Cam Atkinson Columbus
213 Tomas Vincour Dallas
214 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Edmonton
215 Anton Lander Edmonton
216 Teemu Hartikainen Edmonton
217 Erik Gudbranson Florida
218 Brett Bulmer Minnesota
219 Aaron Palushaj Montreal
220 Alexei Yemelin Montreal
221 Raphael Diaz Montreal
222 Brendon Nash Montreal
223 Jonathon Blum Nashville
224 Blake Geoffrion Nashville
225 Craig Smith Nashville
226 Adam Henrique New Jersey
227 Adam Larsson New Jersey
228 Tim Erixon New York
229 Mika Zibanejad Ottawa
230 Colin Greening Ottawa
231 Patrick Wiercioch Ottawa
232 Erik Condra Ottawa
233 Stephane Da Costa Ottawa
234 Sean Couturier Philadelphia
235 Matt Read Philadelphia
236 Erik Gustafsson Philadelphia
237 Joe Vitale Pittsburgh
238 Harri Sateri San Jose
239 Alex Stalock San Jose
240 Brett Connolly Tampa Bay
241 Jake Gardiner Toronto
242 Joe Colborne Toronto
243 Matt Frattin Toronto
244 Ben Scrivens Toronto
245 Cody Hodgson Vancouver
246 Yann Sauve Vancouver
247 Carl Klingberg Winnipeg
248 Mark Scheifele Winnipeg
249 Paul Postma Winnipeg
250 Checklist (Nugent-Hopkins, Landeskog, Larsson) Edmonton, Colorado, New Jersey)
And here is what they look like:
I’m liking the design this year, it’s something different then the past few seasons.
What do you think of this year’s rookies and Young Guns?
Ryan Nugent Hopkins seems to be the head of the class I still say. The young guns design is very crisp. Gives way for the great photography.
I hope the “exclusives” parallel will be in silver foil and not gold. it will look much better. The high gloss are probably look even better!
Do you know if Mats Zuccarello will be in the serie 2?
That would be a question for Upper Deck as I don’t know.
I think Upper Deck is doing a better job with the design. I really liked the idea of last year’s UD S1 retro young guns. Especially with the inclusion of the Canadian World Junior Rookie cards. I was hoping they’d include the World Junior cards again (including American and International players). The new idea for “Hockey Heroes” is better because you can pull one of a variety of star players instead of knowing you’re going to get the same player over and again. Check out the new Canvas Cards. They remind me a bit of black diamond because the cards literally sparkle like glitter.
But again, as far as design goes, I think the new Upper Deck S1 base cards are looking much better than what I’ve seen in the past few years. Last year, I wasn’t surprised at all when I looked at the base cards. They looked practically the same as 09′-10′. 09′-10′ looked quite similar to 08′-09′. I understand each brand has its own sort of trademark look. But don’t keep it at the expense of having little to no appeal! They were dull (imo). Finally, they’re steering away from “the plain same old predictable.” The front and back of the cards have some contrast in color and tint (especially the Canvas inserts). I hope they continue to not only stay with the new look, but try and improve upon it. The Young Guns look very similar to the base cards but they too, look better ones from years passed.
I just wanted to tell Simon what I know about Mats Zuccarello. I don’t believe his rc was in either UD series for 10′-11′. However, a few months ago I purchased 2 or 3 boxes of Pinnacle 2010′-11′. In a box, you usually get one signed rc. I happened to pull both a Zuccarello and a Stepan. I wanted a McDonagh auto but I wasn’t that lucky. I believe Zenith has both Ryan McDonagh and Mats Zuccarello rookie cards as well (and is still available). IDK about Upper Deck though.
Think you could find me a price for these selected cards?
( I pulled them and was just wondering a price)
220 Alexei Yemelin Montreal
222 Brendon Nash Montreal
225 Craig Smith Nashville
246 Yann Sauve Vancouver
Thanks.
I don’t subscribe to Beckett, however, I ALWAYS recommend checking Completed Listings on eBay.
Awesome crop of ygs for series 1