2013-14 Upper Deck Black Diamond

Get out the foil for Upper Deck Black Diamond set. This 250 card set is split up in four ways: single diamond (1-100), dual diamond (101-150), triple diamond (151-200); quad diamond (201-250). With five cards in pack going be a while to finish this set.

 64 - Shawn Horcoff - the cards are foil on the front listing name, team, position, and a diamond. This is single diamond card. Back show the stats along with team logo. Despite wearing Oilers threads the card mention when he was traded to Dallas Stars.

 89 - Craig Anderson - single diamond card. I somehow got decent scan of this card.

LAK-DD - Drew Doughty - double diamond jersey card of Drew Doughty, one of hottest defensemen in the league. He was a total monster in the playoffs this year resulting Kings hoisting Stanley Cup trophy.

218 - Patrick Kane - quad diamond card of Patrick Kane in All-Star jersey. One of top stars in the NHL recently got rewarded with a 8-year, $84 million contract to remain with Blackhawks.

34 - Ryan Suter - playing with a big 13 year $98 million contract he signed in 2012.

30 - Shea Weber  - whoa! Extra card in this pack. Three-time All-Star is one of excellent two-way defenseman to play on ice.

Excellent pack with impressive pull

2013-14 Upper Deck Black Diamond hockey

Wow - I think we all forget about APTBNL. That's not right by any means.

Ok - folder cleaning time. Let's queue up a bunch of packs, starting with UD 13/14 offering of Black Diamond.

Not too much changes when it comes to Black Diamond. It's like the Bowman of hockey - very little changes from year to year. You have the usual levels of cards, from single through quad diamond cards. Hits exist, let's see what we have.

As I said, UD doesn't vary too much from it's past offerings. The one issue each year is the inability to see the player's names without holding the card just right. I do like the background texture to place the focus on the player, though.

In past releases, Black Diamond would use directional hashing in the background. This year, just a flat texture.

I miss these King's alternates.

Here is my big hit from the pack. A nice rookie quad of.....let me look it up since I can't see the name! Mikael Granlund.

And this completes the pack. And the card backs?

Same image with a Instagram sepia filter. While Depres has two years, the standard for players with longer career is on the back - 5 seasons with a total. All in all, the same we have seen before. Zzzzzz...