Upper Deck named exclusive card licensee NHL/NHLPA

[LadyStanley]

http://www.hockeyfights.com/news/49484
Upper Deck Named Exclusive Trading Card Manufacturer for NHL & ...

Will this be a good thing or no?

Nice to see the corporate sponsorship of the Young Stars and Entry Draft.

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[Chaos Giraffe]

Terrible. Now only UD's products will be out on the market...

 

[Resolute]

How is this even legal? Wouldnt this give Upper Deck a monopoly?

Upper Deck is a major reason why I got out of sports card collecting. Nice to see that nothing has changed.

 

[Chaos Giraffe]

How is this even legal? Wouldnt this give Upper Deck a monopoly?

Upper Deck is a major reason why I got out of sports card collecting. Nice to see that nothing has changed.

It's legal. NHL gave permission to UD to do that this year. But I can't believe it's continuing into the future...

 

[Nuclear]

What?!?!

Topps always made the best

 

[coppernblue]

i used to love UD
remember there early 90s draft and rookie cards
but then UD decided to make cards ridiclously expesnive so i said **** em

 

[arrbez]

How is this even legal? Wouldnt this give Upper Deck a monopoly?

Upper Deck is a major reason why I got out of sports card collecting. Nice to see that nothing has changed.

yeah, it's total crap.

the Madden franchise recently did this with NFL video game rights as well.

I have no idea why the NHL and PA would do this though. You'd think more money could be made with lots of different companies making them...

 

[Flukeshot]

Sports cards are a joke now with all the special edition decks and the numerous inserts that make the actual deck worthless. Now if it isn't a rookie card or an insert it might as well be a stick of gum, at least there is some pleasure in getting one of those.

 

[kasper11]

I think it is a bad move for a league that badly needs to encourage young people to follow the sport. Upper Deck undoubtedly paid a crapload of money, but it is shortsighted. More card companies = more promotion of the league.

 

[Chileiceman]

As a collector this is terrible. Having only one card manufacturer is boring. There's no variety.

 

[Resolute]

Sure there is.

Upper Deck only produces what? 250 different sets every year?

Double that to 500, and the only thing that changes is every card has the same logo.