Captain of an NHL team is a big responsibility, that demands not only that a player take a leadership role, but that they be adept at dealing with the media and be able to resolve disputes. With this in mind ITG set out to honour the men who wear the C. 2011-12 Captain-C is a […]

2011 Canada vs The World is an ITG product that celebrates the storied histroy of Canadian Hockey and their place atop the world rankings. The product pays particular attention to the 1972 Summit Series winning team, an event that cemented Canada’s place as the best hockey nation on the planet. Each nine card box promises […]

2011-12 Ultimate Collection is a high-end offering from Upper Deck. Each box offers 4 cards, consisting of an autograph, a numbered memorabilia card, a numbered rookie, and a numbered base. Hit opportunities for the product feature a wide selection of memorabilia and hard signed autographs of hot rookies and big name stars, While not quite […]

2011-12 The Cup is a great example of why collectors love the brand. It offers a guaranteed Rookie Patch Auto, as well as regular patch auto. With a huge variety of subsets and parallels, it offers an invigorating mix that help collectors feel as though they are not being fed the same thing over and […]

2011-12 Black Diamond was a much different product from the Black Diamond now in circulation. A decidedly mid-range product, it focused on the Diamond cards as insert, and the inclusion of rookies. Triple and Quad Diamond cards were sought after by collectors, and drove the product. There were no guaranteed autographs in a box, however […]

Upper Deck Artifacts is always a much anticipated release in the hockey collecting world. The popular rookie redemptions drive the early part of the collecting season, while the memorabilia and autographs offer some early season hits to get fans pumped up. The 2011-12 Artifacts release featured all of these things. While it may not have […]

2011-12 Series 2 Hockey is the follow up to Series 1. This product rounds out several sets began in Series 1, as well as updates some of the other Upper Deck products previously released. Series 2 is often viewed by collectors as lesser than Series 1 due to it’s less note-worthy rookie offerings, but it […]

As Upper Deck’s flagship product, 2011-12 Series 1 Hockey was, as usual, a hot product for collectors. The first opportunity to get in pack cards of the new rookie class, Series 1 is a date that collectors wait for all year. This year’s major Young Guns included Gabriel Landeskog, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and Adam Henrique. Additionally […]

2011-12 SPx was a mid-high end product offered by Upper Deck to highlight the rookie class of the year. Several rookie oriented subsets were included in the product, at varying degrees of rarity. It offers a well balanced mixture of memorabilia and autographs for collectors, while maintaining a degree of variablity in hits. Additionally, each […]

Memorabilia has long been popular with card collectors and Upper Deck uses SP Game Used to fill this demand. The 2011-12 SPGU offering allowed collectors and opportunity at several different types of memorabilia cards, including several nameplate and numberplate sets. These were often accentuated with autographs, and some of the more popular ones have been known […]