1991-92 Upper Deck High Series Hockey

Shoebox Shane opened a pack of series 1 back in 2010, and got a hologram! I wasn't as lucky with this high series pack, but I still got a bunch of new cards for my collection.

Early Upper Deck sets didn't do Series 1 and 2 traditionally. They would issue series 1, and then, what they called a High Series, which had new cards...but also had the first series cards mixed in as well. Really makes you wonder why anybody would open series 1 in the first place, when you could just wait for the High Series and chase the entire set. But as I just began collecting hockey actively this year, maybe there was a reason I am not aware of. I can't remember anymore but I think they did the same thing for the NBA as well. I have completed the 500 card NBA set, the hockey set runs to 700 cards, so I wonder if I will complete that as well some day? Time will tell!

Now, let's take a look at what came out of this pack!
#342 Troy Crowder

#82 Detroit Red Wings Team Checklist. This was a duplicate so I didn't scan my copy. But you can see it by clicking the link. I was given more than 2500 hockey cards in January 2015 so I'm not starting totally from scratch.
#131 Peter Bondra

#3 Dmitri Filimonov

#175 Mike Richter

#295 Mark Tinordi

#389 Tom Fitzgerald

#431 Kip Miller

#600 Checklist. This is the first actual high series card in the pack, and I'm thrilled- it's the first hockey checklist I've ever pulled. I love checklists, and one was even my most wanted card from 1996 to 2005, when I finally got it.

#556 Pat LaFontaine. Another high series card. Target is where I get most of my cards these days, but this was issued more than a decade before the first one opened up around here. Pretty sure I went to any Targets for the first time in only 2002.

#610 All-Star Checklist. Another high series issue. Actually the final 4 cards are all High Series.

#613 Kevin Stevens All-Star subset

Unfortunately I was not lucky enough to pull a hologram in my pack, but I have another waiting to be opened, and I already got the Wayne Gretzky #AW1 as a single.
Here's a card back.

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