2012-13 OPC Hockey Kicks Off Season With Big Base Set, Patches, Autos

2012-13 O-Pee-Chee (OPC) hockey reached most hobby shops on Tuesday as the first product of the upcoming season and Upper Deck is making sure most NHL players have a card.  The base set is 600 cards strong.

It’s a ‘base brand’, with Upper Deck drawing on the OPC brand name that was such a part of Canadian childhoods from the 1960s through part of the 1990s.   Packs are priced at around $2.50 with boxes available for about $60.  Each pack has eight cards and there are 32 packs in a box.

Stickers, including some thick cut retros (one per three packs on average), NHL team logo patches (four per cas), autographed buybacks and pop-up cards are among the highlights which also include:

A total of 100 patches in the entire product

Marquee Rookie Cards of players who debut at the end of the ’11-12 season.

Retro Variation Cards inserted 1 per pack

Two NHL Superstar Pop-Up Cards Per Box

Autographed Buybacks and Team Canada Signatures
PRODUCT BREAKDOWN:

Rookie Cards & Legends: (combine to deliver 1 in 2 packs)

– Marquee Rookies
– Marquee Legends

(NEW) NHL Team Logo Patches: (combined 4 per case)

– Old school, funky & new – inserted 1:96

Signature Cards:

– OPC Signatures – inserted 1:192
– Team Canada Sigs – inserted 1:384

Retro Variations & Parallels:P

– Regular Set Retro Variation – inserted 1:1
– Rainbow parallel – inserted 1:4
– Black Border Rainbow parallel – #’d to 100

(NEW) O-Pee-Chee Inserts:

– Stickers – inserted 1:3
– Pop-Ups – inserted 1:16

As a special promotion for Canada, Upper Deck is offering collectors  there a special wrapper redemption promotion. These will be offered through Certified Diamond Dealers in Canada only. For every 50 wrappers a collector shares with the CDD, the shop can send it in to UD’s Canadian Fulfillment Center where they will receive one redemption pack with five red-bordered parallel cards and one All-Star insert (50 total subjects).

The packs have been completed and will be sent out immediately as wrappers come in.  The complete 2012-13 OPC hockey checklist is below.