2024-2025 Upper Deck MVP Hockey

24-25 UD Hockey:  Game 4 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals is tonight with Florida up on Edmonton 2-1.  Leon Draisaitl has 4 points in the series.

I'm not a big hockey fan but I do enjoy hockey cards.  My daughter got me these as a gift and they are fun.  I think this is a solid design.  I do wish the team logo was in either of the corners on the bottom.

I'm never a fan of cards with no stats but these have a different take with highlights from the player's season.

Jason Polin hasn't made it in the NHL yet but does show up on this Rookies card.  Small pack but it is a fun one.

BREAKDOWN:
6 – Total Cards
1 – Rookies

2021-2022 Upper Deck MVP Hockey

2021-2022 MVP Hockey:  The NHL All-Star Game is tonight so I'll show of some new hockey I recently picked up.  Can't say I'm a big fan of the MVP brand.  Seems to take away from the photos somehow which is what Upper Deck brings to the table - good photography.  We'll kick this one off with a three-time champion who is in his 16th year in the league and has had a Hall of Fame career.

The design is meh for me.  Maybe with some different colors and a team logo and I'd be more onboard.  And I feel like I'm looking at the same card every time.

Man that Eriksson looked like a signature.  And it took a bit to figure out it isn't.  It is a Silver Script parallel. Boo on Upper Deck for making a person think it's an autograph.  Mascot cards are fun and I like the feel of this one.  The Ice Battles is a parallel.  Couldn't they do different colors or something?

Some goalie love. Again...they all look about the same.

The backs are fine.

I'm glad I picked up the pack but I will say the design just doesn't work for me.  This is only my second look at MVP as a brand so I won't give up on it.  The 2019-2020 design was better for me especially compared to this years.  The Cale Makar is a short print which are cards 201-250 in the set.  The last 25 are rookie SPs.

BREAKDOWN:
28 – Total Cards
1 – SP
1 – Ice Battles
1 – Mascot Gaming
1 – Silver Script Parallel

2019-2020 Upper Deck MVP Hockey

This 2019-2020 Upper Deck MVP Hockey pack seems a good way to start the weekend with hockey now in full swing.  As with all hockey posts I caveat this with the fact that I'm not the biggest hockey fan but I do like the game and just don't have the time in my sports fandom.  That said I watched quite a bit of the playoffs as the local team, the St. Louis Blues, made their magical run to their first NHL title.  I count the Flames and Bruins as the teams I follow.  The Colton Parayko card seems a fitting way to kick off the post. 

 The Boston Bruins were well represented with four cards including the only Rookie card in the pack.

I'm disappointed by the lack of a team logo on the fronts which are OK but not overly special.  The MVP logo takes up a bit too much space for my liking.  So I'm OK with the design and cards but nothing more.  The backs are fine but it seems like the stats could have taken up more of the card with a larger font or format.  The Dylan Larkin card is a puzzle card parallel with part of a puzzle being on the back of the card.  Each puzzle parallel is part of a nine-piece player puzzle with there being many different puzzles of NHL players.

Some goalie love.

The photos don't stand out like they normally do in Upper Deck's flagship hockey sets.  I feel like I'm basically looking at the same photo with only the player changing on each card.

I won't search out any more packs from this set but I am looking forward to the flagship release which will come the first week of November. 

BREAKDOWN:

34 – Total Cards
1 - Rookie
1 – Puzzle Back Parallel