If you haven’t noticed, sports trading cards are kind of a big thing right now. Card sales are setting new records seemingly every day, people are waving guns at each other in parking lots, and, quite frankly, there isn’t a lot of product to be found out there. While hockey cards have lagged behind the other big three sports (especially basketball) they haven’t been immune to market pressures.
Prices are up all around, and that’s if you can find any. When I stopped in the local card store to pick up the box we’re going to talk about in this post I noticed that the shop had regular boxes of Upper Deck Series 2 for sale for about $145.