1992-93 Fleer Ultra Hockey
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Collectors were recently reintroduced to the 1992-93 Fleer Ultra design thanks to 2012-13 Fleer Retro Hockey from Upper Deck. The original cards are gorgeous. For their time, they were considered a premium issue. Featuring a high-gloss, full-bleed action photo, the player image takes center stage.
During the early 1990s, the use of foil printing on cards was in its infancy and used sparingly. The Fleer Ultra logo is located either at the top right or top left of the card, wherever it did not interfere with the photo. Tucked nicely at the bottom of the card is a diagonal swath of light blue representing a scratched-up ice surface. Two bars across the surface hold the player’s name, position and team.
1992-93 Fleer Ultra Hockey card backs are also planned out well. They are arranged in a horizontal landscape design, with a background that resembles a hockey rink. Two additional player photos grace the card backs. One is a full-length body shot and the other shows the player from the shoulders up. The fact that all three photos on the card are different is a testament to the care and pride that went into designing the set. The team logo and card number are prominently displayed with the card number positioned in the upper right corner, making for easy sorting. The player’s biographical and statistical information is included on the card back as well.
The manner in which the set checklist is configured is one of the best features of 1992-93 Fleer Ultra Hockey. The players are sorted by team and the teams are spread out alphabetically. For example, all of the Boston Bruins kick off the set. This structure makes team and player collecting much easier.
1992-93 Fleer Ultra has a total of 43 rookie cards in the set, most of which are found in Series 2. Notable players include Roman Hamrlik, Bill Guerin, Sergei Zubov, Martin Straka and Igor Korolev. Also of note is that the rookie card checklist is dominated with players of Russian descent. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, the opportunity to play in the NHL became a reality.
In typical 1990's fashion, 1992-93 Fleer Ultra has plenty of inserts. Series 1 has four insert sets:
- NHL All-Star - 12 cards
- Award Winners - ten cards
- Rookies - eight cards
- Performance Highlights - 12 cards
Performance Highlights features a young Jeremy Roenick of the Chicago Blackhawks. The set can be a bit difficult to complete today. The first ten cards were available in packs and are relatively common. However, the final two were only available through a mail order offer. Additionally, collectors can pull a Jeremy Roenick autograph card. These were allegedly seeded 1:8,000 packs.
Series 2 has just one insert set. The 25-card Imports insert includes many players from the aforementioned Russian migration that hockey experienced in the early-1990s.
1992-93 Fleer Ultra Hockey was the sport's first set under the Ultra banner. It is still a fun set to look for at shows and purchase for a reasonable price. At only $10-$20 a box, you’re not going to retire with what you pull, but you are going to enjoy opening packs and putting together a set of cards that holds significance in the history of collecting.
You can listen to more insight analysis and commentary about the set on the Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 episode of Cardboard Connection Radio.
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Set Checklist
1992-93 Fleer Ultra Hockey Set Checklist
Base Set Checklist
1 Brent Ashton
2 Ray Bourque
3 Steve Heinze
4 Joe Juneau
5 Steve Leach
6 Andy Moog
7 Cam Neely
8 Adam Oates
9 Dave Poulin
10 Vladimir Ruzicka
11 Glen Wesley
12 Dave Andreychuk
13 Keith Carney RC
14 Tom Draper
15 Dale Hawerchuk
16 Pat LaFontaine
17 Brad May
18 Alexander Mogilny
19 Mike Ramsey
20 Ken Sutton
21 Theoren Fleury
22 Gary Leeman
23 Al MacInnis
24 Sergei Makarov
25 Joe Nieuwendyk
26 Joel Otto
27 Paul Ranheim
28 Robert Reichel
29 Gary Roberts
30 Gary Suter
31 Mike Vernon
32 Ed Belfour
33 Rob Brown
34 Chris Chelios
35 Michel Goulet
36 Dirk Graham
37 Mike Hudson
38 Igor Kravchuk
39 Steve Larmer
40 Dean McAmmond RC
41 Jeremy Roenick
42 Steve Smith
43 Brent Sutter
44 Shawn Burr
45 Jimmy Carson
46 Tim Cheveldae
47 Dino Ciccarelli
48 Sergei Fedorov
49 Vladimir Konstantinov
50 Vyacheslav Kozlov
51 Nicklas Lidstrom
52 Brad McCrimmon
53 Bob Probert
54 Paul Ysebaert
55 Steve Yzerman
56 Josef Beranek
57 Shayne Corson
58 Brian Glynn
59 Petr Klima
60 Kevin Lowe
61 Norm Maciver
62 Dave Manson
63 Joe Murphy
64 Bernie Nicholls
65 Bill Ranford
66 Craig Simpson
67 Esa Tikkanen
68 Sean Burke
69 Adam Burt
70 Andrew Cassels
71 Murray Craven
72 John Cullen
73 Randy Cunneyworth
74 Tim Kerr
75 Geoff Sanderson
76 Eric Weinrich
77 Zarley Zalapski
78 Peter Ahola
79 Rob Blake
80 Paul Coffey
81 Mike Donnelly
82 Tony Granato
83 Wayne Gretzky
84 Kelly Hrudey
85 Jari Kurri
86 Corey Millen
87 Luc Robitaille
88 Tomas Sandstrom
89 Neal Broten
90 Jon Casey
91 Russ Courtnall
92 Ulf Dahlen
93 Todd Elik
94 Dave Gagner
95 Jim Johnson
96 Mike Modano
97 Bobby Smith
98 Mark Tinordi
99 Darcy Wakaluk
100 Brian Bellows
101 Benoit Brunet
102 Guy Carbonneau
103 Vincent Damphousse
104 Eric Desjardins
105 Gilbert Dionne
106 Mike Keane
107 Kirk Muller
108 Patrick Roy
109 Denis Savard
110 Mathieu Schneider
111 Brian Skrudland
112 Tom Chorske
113 Zdeno Ciger
114 Claude Lemieux
115 John MacLean
116 Scott Niedermayer
117 Stephane Richer
118 Peter Stastny
119 Scott Stevens
120 Chris Terreri
121 Kevin Todd
122 Valeri Zelepukin
123 Ray Ferraro
124 Mark Fitzpatrick
125 Patrick Flatley
126 Glenn Healy
127 Benoit Hogue
128 Derek King
129 Uwe Krupp
130 Scott Lachance
131 Steve Thomas
132 Pierre Turgeon
133 Tony Amonte
134 Paul Broten
135 Mike Gartner
136 Adam Graves
137 Alexei Kovalev
138 Brian Leetch
139 Mark Messier
140 Sergei Nemchinov
141 James Patrick
142 Mike Richter
143 Darren Turcotte
144 John Vanbiesbrouck
145 Dominic Lavoie
146 Lonnie Loach RC
147 Andrew McBain
148 Darren Rumble RC
149 Sylvain Turgeon
150 Peter Sidorkiewicz
151 Brian Benning
152 Rod Brind'Amour
153 Vyacheslav Butsayev RC
154 Kevin Dineen
155 Pelle Eklund
156 Garry Galley
157 Eric Lindros
158 Mark Recchi
159 Dominic Roussel
160 Tommy Soderstrom RC
161 Dmitri Yushkevich RC
162 Tom Barrasso
163 Ron Francis
164 Jaromir Jagr
165 Mario Lemieux
166 Joe Mullen
167 Larry Murphy
168 Jim Paek
169 Kjell Samuelsson
170 Ulf Samuelsson
171 Kevin Stevens
172 Rick Tocchet
173 Alexei Gusarov
174 Ron Hextall
175 Mike Hough
176 Claude Lapointe
177 Owen Nolan
178 Mike Ricci
179 Joe Sakic
180 Mats Sundin
181 Mikhail Tatarinov
182 Bob Bassen
183 Jeff Brown
184 Garth Butcher
185 Paul Cavallini
186 Brett Hull
187 Craig Janney
188 Curtis Joseph
189 Brendan Shanahan
190 Ron Sutter
191 David Bruce
192 Dale Craigwell
193 Dean Evason
194 Pat Falloon
195 Jeff Hackett
196 Kelly Kisio
197 Brian Lawton
198 Neil Wilkinson
199 Doug Wilson
200 Marc Bergevin
201 Roman Hamrlik RC
202 Pat Jablonski
203 Michel Mongeau
204 Peter Taglianetti
205 Steve Tuttle
206 Wendell Young
207 Glenn Anderson
208 Wendel Clark
209 Dave Ellett
210 Grant Fuhr
211 Doug Gilmour
212 Jamie Macoun
213 Felix Potvin
214 Bob Rouse
215 Joe Sacco
216 Peter Zezel
217 Greg Adams
218 Dave Babych
219 Pavel Bure
220 Geoff Courtnall
221 Doug Lidster
222 Trevor Linden
223 Jyrki Lumme
224 Kirk McLean
225 Sergio Momesso
227 Cliff Ronning
228 Jim Sandlak
229 Don Beaupre
230 Peter Bondra
231 Kevin Hatcher
232 Dale Hunter
233 Al Iafrate
234 Calle Johansson
235 Dmitri Khristich
236 Kelly Miller
237 Michal Pivonka
238 Mike Ridley
239 Luciano Borsato
240 Bob Essensa
241 Phil Housley
242 Troy Murray
243 Teppo Numminen
244 Fredrik Olausson
245 Ed Olczyk
246 Darrin Shannon
247 Thomas Steen
248 Checklist
249 Checklist
250 Checklist
Series 2
251 Ted Donato
252 Dmitri Kvartalnov RC
253 Gord Murphy
254 Grigori Panteleev RC
255 Gordie Roberts
256 David Shaw
257 Don Sweeney
258 Doug Bodger
259 Gord Donnelly
260 Yuri Khmylev RC
261 Daren Puppa
262 Richard Smehlik RC
263 Petr Svoboda
264 Bob Sweeney
265 Randy Wood
266 Kevin Dahl RC
267 Chris Dahlquist
268 Roger Johansson
269 Chris Lindberg
270 Frank Musil
271 Ronnie Stern
272 Carey Wilson
273 Dave Christian
274 Karl Dykhuis
275 Greg Gilbert
276 Sergei Krivokrasov
277 Frantisek Kucera
278 Bryan Marchment
279 Stephane Matteau
280 Brian Noonan
281 Christian Ruuttu
282 Steve Chiasson
283 Dino Ciccarelli
284 Gerard Gallant
285 Mark Howe
286 Keith Primeau
287 Yves Racine
288 Vincent Riendeau
289 Ray Sheppard
290 Mike Sillinger
291 Kelly Buchberger
292 Shayne Corson
293 Brent Gilchrist
294 Craig MacTavish
295 Scott Mellanby
296 Craig Muni
297 Luke Richardson
298 Ron Tugnutt
299 Shaun Van Allen
300 Steve Konroyd
301 Nick Kypreos
302 Robert Petrovicky RC
303 Frank Pietrangelo
304 Patrick Poulin
305 Pat Verbeek
306 Eric Weinrich
307 Jim Hiller RC
308 Charlie Huddy
309 Lonnie Loach RC
310 Marty McSorley
311 Robb Stauber
312 Darryl Sydor
313 Dave Taylor
314 Alexei Zhitnik
315 Shane Churla
316 Russ Courtnall
317 Mike Craig
318 Gaetan Duchesne
319 Derian Hatcher
320 Craig Ludwig
321 Richard Matvichuk RC
322 Mike McPhee
323 Tommy Sjodin RC
324 Brian Bellows
325 Patrice Brisebois
326 J.J. Daigneault
327 Kevin Haller
328 Sean Hill RC
329 Stephan Lebeau
330 John LeClair
331 Lyle Odelein
332 Andre Racicot
333 Ed Ronan RC
334 Craig Billington RC
335 Ken Daneyko
336 Bruce Driver
337 Viacheslav Fetisov
338 Bill Guerin RC
339 Bobby Holik
340 Alexei Kasatonov
341 Alexander Semak
342 Tom Fitzgerald
343 Travis Green RC
344 Darius Kasparaitis
345 Danny Lorenz RC
346 Vladimir Malakhov
347 Marty McInnis
348 Brian Mullen
349 Jeff Norton
350 David Volek
351 Jeff Beukeboom
352 Phil Bourque
353 Paul Broten
354 Mark Hardy
355 Steven King RC
356 Kevin Lowe
357 Ed Olczyk
358 Doug Weight
359 Sergei Zubov RC
360 Jamie Baker
361 Daniel Berthiaume
362 Chris Luongo RC
363 Norm Maciver RC
364 Brad Marsh
365 Mike Peluso
366 Brad Shaw
367 Peter Sidorkiewicz
368 Keith Acton
369 Stephane Beauregard
370 Terry Carkner
371 Brent Fedyk
372 Andrei Lomakin
373 Ryan McGill RC
374 Ric Nattress
375 Greg Paslawski
376 Peter Ahola
377 Jeff Daniels
378 Troy Loney
379 Shawn McEachern
380 Mike Needham RC
381 Paul Stanton
382 Martin Straka RC
383 Ken Wregget
384 Steve Duchesne
385 Ron Hextall
386 Kerry Huffman
387 Andrei Kovalenko RC
388 Bill Lindsay RC
389 Mike Ricci
390 Martin Rucinsky
391 Scott Young
392 Philippe Bozon
393 Nelson Emerson
394 Guy Hebert RC
395 Igor Korolev RC
396 Kevin Miller
397 Vitali Prokhorov RC
398 Rich Sutter
399 John Carter
400 Johan Garpenlov
401 Arturs Irbe
402 Sandis Ozolinsh
403 Tom Pederson RC
404 Michel Picard
405 Doug Zmolek RC
406 Mikael Andersson
407 Bob Beers
408 Brian Bradley
409 Adam Creighton
410 Doug Crossman
411 Ken Hodge
412 Chris Kontos RC
413 Rob Ramage
414 John Tucker
415 Rob Zamuner RC
416 Ken Baumgartner
417 Drake Berehowsky
418 Nikolai Borschevsky RC
419 John Cullen
420 Mike Foligno
421 Mike Krushelnyski
422 Dmitri Mironov
423 Rob Pearson
424 Gerald Diduck
425 Robert Dirk
426 Tom Fergus
427 Gino Odjick
428 Adrien Plavsic
429 Anatoli Semenov
430 Jiri Slegr
431 Dixon Ward RC
432 Paul Cavallini
433 Sylvain Cote
434 Pat Elynuik
435 Jim Hrivnak
436 Keith Jones RC
437 Steve Konowalchuk RC
438 Todd Krygier
439 Paul MacDermid
440 Sergei Bautin RC
441 Evgeny Davydov
442 John Druce
443 Troy Murray
444 Teemu Selanne
445 Rick Tabaracci
446 Keith Tkachuk
447 Alexei Zhamnov
448 Checklist
449 Checklist
450 Checklist
Award Winner Set Checklist
2 Brian Leetch
3 Guy Carbonneau
4 Patrick Roy
5 Mario Lemieux
6 Wayne Gretzky
7 Mark Fitzpatrick
8 Ray Bourque
9 Pavel Bure
10 Mark Messier
Jeremy Roenick Performance Highlights Set Checklist
2 Jeremy Roenick
3 Jeremy Roenick
4 Jeremy Roenick
5 Jeremy Roenick
6 Jeremy Roenick
7 Jeremy Roenick
8 Jeremy Roenick
9 Jeremy Roenick
10 Jeremy Roenick
11 Jeremy Roenick Mail-Order
12 Jeremy Roenick Mail-Order
AU Jeremy Roenick AU
NHL All-Star Set Checklist
2 Ray Bourque
3 Patrick Roy
4 Mario Lemieux
5 Kevin Stevens
6 Jaromir Jagr
7 Chris Chelios
8 Al MacInnis
9 Ed Belfour
10 Wayne Gretzky
11 Luc Robitaille
12 Brett Hull
Ultra Import Set Checklist
2 Pavel Bure
3 Sergei Fedorov
4 Roman Hamrlik
5 Arturs Irbe
6 Jaromir Jagr
7 Dmitri Khristich
8 Petr Klima
9 Andrei Kovalenko
10 Alex Kovalev
11 Jari Kurri
12 Dmitri Kvartalnov
13 Nicklas Lidstrom
15 Dmitri Mironov
16 Alexander Mogilny
17 Petr Nedved
18 Fredrik Olausson
19 Sandis Ozolinsh
20 Ulf Samuelsson
21 Teemu Selanne
22 Richard Smehlik
23 Tommy Soderstrom
24 Peter Stastny
25 Mats Sundin
Ultra Rookie Set Checklist
2 Donald Audette
3 Pavel Bure
4 Gilbert Dionne
5 Nelson Emerson
6 Pat Falloon
7 Nicklas Lidstrom
8 Kevin Todd
Jumbo J
Cheap nostalgia, exceptionally beautiful cards (this design was spread across to all 4 NA sports that year and absolutely stunning). Have you seen these cards autographed? Black ink autos look incredible, my regret was not to bring more of these to get signed when I was young but at least I managed to get a couple decent sigs (Theo Fleury, Mark Recchi, Eric Lindros, and Adam Oates). The high gloss finish may lead to smudging of the auto when sleeving it.
Boxes shouldn’t cost you more than $20 plus you have a long odds shot at a Roenick auto.
For a challenge, these cards have been inserted in 16-17 Fleer Showcase. These buybacks are stamped, #’d to 25 on the front and some are auto’d (with a separate COA).