Upper Deck's trend of an SP card, made popular by the Michael Jordan baseball card in 1991 Upper Deck Baseball, is brought over to the ice.
The biggest difference is the NHL 75th anniversary logo along the bottom of the card.īase card backs have another large photo, vitals, stats for the previous five years and career numbers.Ī separate French release was once again issued, though the cards carry little premium today.ġ991-92 Upper Deck Hockey has a couple of different inserts as well. The white borders and general layout are very similar to the 1990-91 set. At the time, the glossy look was high-end, setting it above nearly every other hockey card set. The design is, once again, very clean with a strong focus on photography. Other key rookie cards in 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey include Peter Forsberg and Dominik Hasek. Rookie cards in that part of the set include Keith Tkachuk and Nikolai Khabibulin.
The WJC cards include several teams, not just Canada. These gave collectors the first cards of Teemu Selanne, Nicklas Lidstrom and Alexei Zhamnov. The Low Series checklist also has subsets dedicated to Soviet Stars and the Canada Cup. No doubt in response to the popular Team Canada cards from the World Junior Championships in 1990-91 Upper Deck Hockey, the international flavor is expanded even further. The first series is comprised of 500 cards while the final 200 came in High Series packs. Once again split into a Low Series and a High Series, a complete 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey set has 700 cards. See also: 1990-91 Upper Deck Hockey Cards 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey Set Details Values might not reflect that today, but that's a matter of overproduction, not set quality.
Strong photography and another tremendous crop of rookies make 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey one of the decade's top releases. How do you follow up a stellar debut? For 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey, it was to continue to focus on the good stuff.
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