Welcome to the UD Hockey Card Error Blog!

Starting in 2004-05, the Upper Deck (UD) trading card company signed an exclusive license with the NHL and NHLPA to become the sole producer of NHL cards. I don't want to use this blog as a reason why this is wrong. What I want to do is show how UD is inadequate to hold such a license unless things start to change. This blog is purely for showing the lack of attention to detail that UD has given to the hobby with their exclusive license. Hopefully, by educating collectors, UD will take notice and actually put more effort into their future products. Can a sole producer of trading cards work? Probably. But if we're forced to buy UD products due to the exclusive license, then they should be forced to a higher standard

One thing a lack of competition in a market does is allow the provider of the products to become lazier and disinterested. The consumer suffers. Not the producer.

The cards I want to show collectors are not ones that are in doubt, but ones that are blatantly incorrect. Cards that leave you scratching your head wondering how that happened or how the card ever got past their Quality Assurance department.

Hopefully this helps educate fellow hockey card collectors and one day causes UD to retool their card making process.

If you have any errors or variations that you would like added to the blog, feel free to e-mail them to me at vegaspuck@yahoo.com.

Thanks,
Chris

Capital mistake

On this 05-06 UD The Cup Luc Robitaille Signature Patch, either UD accidentally placed a Capitals patch on the card, or I missed the season he played for Washington:

Even more Exclusive...

On the 06-07 UD Series 2 Evgeni Malkin Young Guns Checklist Exclusive Parallel, Upper Deck failed to individually number the cards to 100 like the rest of the cards in the Exclusive set:

Bruins double dip?

Mark Stuart must be a pretty valuable prospect. Not only did UD put him in the 06-07 UD Series 2 Young Guns rookie set, they also used his picture on Nate Thompson's Young Guns rookie card as well:

Who you callin' a Berkhoel?

Poor, Adam Dennis. He finally gets his first NHL hockey card and UD doesn't even put his picture on the card. On this 06-07 UD Series 2 Young Guns Adam Dennis rookie card, UD mistakenly pictured Adam Berkhoel instead:



Here's a picture of the real Adam Dennis who wears #35:

Signing while standing on your head....

Poor, Cam Neely. UD just can't seem to figure out which way his signature goes. In 05-06 they put autograph stickers of Cam Neely on some of his cards the wrong way. Seems like it's happened again in 06-07 as can be seen on this SPx Flashback Fabrics card:



Here's what his auto should look like:

Chico and the man...

On the 06-07 UD Artifacts Billy Smith Auto-Facts Signature card, UD mistakenly used the picture of everyone's favorite Devils color commentator, Chico Resch: