A Lightning-themed look at the 2017-18 Upper Deck Series One

It’s the best time of the year, well at least for hockey card collectors. November means that Upper Deck’s flagship product has finally been released. While MVP and O-Pee-Chee are nice sets to wet the appetite, this is the set that gets the collectors going. Mainly because of the rookie cards, aka Young Guns, which serve as the bellwether for how a player’s career is going to be seen by the public.

Connor McDavid - prepare to shell out over a hundred bucks for his little piece of cardboard. Alan Quine - go to a local card shop and search through the dime box.

Of course the Young Guns subset only makes up 50 cards out of a set of 250. So there are plenty of other players featured in the base…