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. The set contains the only "true" rookie card of Pedro Martinez and one of only two RCs of Jim Thome.How do you follow up a stellar debut? For 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey, it was to continue to focus on the good stuff. The cards are sequentially-numbered on the back with an "F" suffix. Six assorted team logo hologram cards were issued with each set.
In addition to the usual late season traded and impact rookie cards (#22F-#78F), the set includes two special subsets: Diamond Skills cards (#1F-#21F), depicting the best Minor League prospects, and All-Star cards (#80F-#99F). This would be the only year Upper Deck would produce a Final Edition set and was packaged in the same type of box as the 19 Hi-Series factory sets. In lieu of releasing the Hi-Series set as its own factory set, for 1991 Upper Deck released a distinct "update" style set - not unlike Topps Traded, Fleer Update, Score Rookie/Traded. 1991 Upper Deck Final Edition is a 100-card update set.
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