2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey
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🃏 Rip It
2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) is a rare +EV rip: an estimated $122 of value inside against a $96 street price (127%).
EV is a full-print-run average built from a Wildcard editorial estimate — it assumes every chase card is still sealed, and most boxes return less than the average. We do not record when this estimate was last checked — it may have been written at release and never revisited. How we rate, and what these numbers assume →
What's in the box
- 6 Young Guns rookies per box (on average)
- Canvas ~1:6 packs
Hockey's annuity: Young Guns carry the box every year. Best structural EV in modern wax — still not free money.
The cards worth chasing
How to spot them in hand:
- Young Guns rookies — The Young Guns subset has its own design — a distinct bordered layout that does not match the base cards around it — and the words Young Guns on the front. Series 1 carries 49 of them.
Don't toss it — what gets binned by mistake
Everyone opening this box knows what the headline card is. These are the ones that go in the bulk box instead, and what separates them from a common in your hand.
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🌈 Parallel UD Canvas Black & White parallel ~$2
Look for: A Canvas card printed in greyscale instead of colour. About 1:48 packs for veterans, 1:144 at Young Guns level.
Greyscale reads as a design choice rather than a parallel, especially inside a Canvas stack that already looks unlike the rest of the box.
See what these sell for → · Checklist Insider — 2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Checklist, Young Guns Info
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✨ Insert UD Canvas Young Guns no live comp
Look for: A Canvas card — matte, textured stock with its own design — that is also a Young Guns rookie. Canvas veterans fall about 1:3 packs; a Canvas Young Guns is 1:24.
The Canvas cards arrive as a small stack that reads as one kind of insert, and the Young Guns hiding in it fall at eight times the rarity of the veterans beside them.
See what these sell for → · Checklist Insider — 2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Checklist, Young Guns Info
Questions
Is a 2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) worth buying?
2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) is a rare +EV rip: an estimated $122 of value inside against a $96 street price (127%).
What is the expected value of a 2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box)?
Wildcard estimates about $122 of card value inside a 2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box), against a typical street price of $96 — roughly 127% of what you pay. These are directional editorial estimates from odds sheets and recent sales, not guarantees.
At what price is a 2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) worth ripping?
A 2025-26 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) breaks even to open at about $128 (rip below that if you're keeping the cards), and is +EV even after selling fees below about $103. Above that, buy the singles you want instead.