2021-22 O-Pee-Chee Platinum Hockey Cards Checklist and Odds

Hey Trey, I just pulled a Black Shield Variant of Marquee Rookie Alex Newhook out of the 21/22Platinum Hockey. I don’t see any mention of them in the product description. Do you have any info on it?
Rick Hiebert

As was mentioned before, the centering of some of the base cards and parallels isn’t great. One interesting thing I noticed is that the exact same veteran card appears twice, #93 and #164 are both Josh Norris cards with the Ottawa Senators, the picture on the fronts are identical, as are the stats on the back, I’m sure this wasn’t done on purpose!

Busted 10 boxes and not much in the way of value and rated two stars because three of the 10 autos were from previous year’s products and they were the ONLY auto in the box. That stinks but then Upper Deck does that all the time and I am getting tired of it!

What is this a joke UD? Incompetent everything. I managed to find some Blasters at Target, that is about all I will throw at this mess of a release. If you can even call it that.

As a hockey card breaker I am lucky to see all the U.D products. Usually really nice stuff. However this years OPC Platinum is the worst QC I’ve ever seen. I’m embarrassed for Upper Deck to release this product in the condition these cards are in. Most are off-center and ALL MATTE PINKS are 90/10 centering or worse. Platinum has always been my first over-all favorite until this years product. OMG Upper Deck this is pure GARBAGE. I love the design and rookie selections but the centering of these cards is despicable!

Terrible product, Stay far, far, far away. I confirm what everybody else said.

I won’t repeat what others have already said, they’ve mentionned everything there is to know about this terrible product! I just want to lower the 3.1 overall rating to prevent some people from buying boxes thinking it may be worth it! If it wasn’t from people who rated this product 3 or more a year before the product was released, it would’ve been rated 1.5 at best! Good job UD…

Well, got ripped off bad with this platinum box. I decided to buy one as I was given some birthday money. What a waste! No autographed card in the box. I thought that at least 1 autograph was guaranteed? 250$ Canadian, I would have expected at least a no name autograph at worst, but none! 1 star, as others said, product is so so and false advertising as far I’m concerned. Cards are often stuck together affecting the surface of the card, and off centred. If you try to get these graded, good luck trying to get pristine 10! This is a new low for UD as far as I’m concerned and will be my last buy for Platinum. This product is not worth it at all anymore. UD you are killing the hobby real good!

The once great OPC Platinum is now dead ! (to most of us) Gave it two stars for nostalgic reasons.
Many months ago my distributor called for orders on 21-22 OPC Platinum. There were some minor changes to the makeup, less packs, more cards per pack and only about $50 per box more than last year !! With a heavy heart I told my distributor no thanks and gave up on once one of my favorite issues.
I have watched a number of breaks because yes, I was still interested in the product, wishfully thinking maybe it will come down in price and I’ll get a 1/2 case or something. Nope, not anymore, quality is terrible, I had a hard time spotting any cards with 50/50 centering, some were 80/20 ….it’s all junk.
90 of 100 boxes have a no name auto. Can go on and on but others have covered it already in their reviews.
Good luck breakers, I won’t be buying any spots at any price…. as mentioned above, poor quality and chance of a good name Auto is very very small.
also with to thank UD, you have already made up my mind for 22-23 OPC Platinum. I leave it all to the rest of you. Without major changes and a drastic reduction in price this product is officially dead as far as I’m concerned.

Bought into an online Case Break, and really did not think it was worth it.
even though I got lucky and hit a Rookie Auto of the 32 teams in the league, it still seems way overpriced. Your basically getting one Auto per Box and the rest of the product has zero value unless it’s the top 5 rookies in the year. I would have been more happy with less cards and a smaller price tag per Box to pay. At least it wouldn`t be a huge dent in the average Joes Wallet. OPS Platinum is way behind Allure`s release date and it almost feels like the identical product except for the AHL/OHL players that are not in the NHL are being sifted into OPC Platinum

wow….
quality of cards is just pathetic
Upper Deck…. we are laughing so hard at how bad you have become
slowly swirling around the toilet bowl, to be flushed away… and remembered as the worst ever

Many hockey cards fans… would have been in agreement…
that OPC Platinum ..was… repeat… was one of the best hockey card products in UD’s portfolio

so apparently.. UD decided to pay some person(s) to make changes to the product..
that for whatever reason took like 2 years to get to their customers….
during that time.. the last GOOD version of Platinum … pricepoint on the secondary market increased to over $200 US a box..
so bright boys think…. lets add 50 no name players and 50 no name.no value rookies .. to the product..
so we will make more production.. more money…. (no we couldnt possible water down the product..not us) and lets keep at one auto per box and more worthless cards in a box… and lets increase the price to where the secondary market is now on last version…. to start…

so boys at UD think they did a good thing….
.. ahem.. ahem… as owners of the exclusive license we should have every right to increase profitability from the products that we produce…
but when .. by the thousands… their customers just dont buy this product… and dont buy UD Extended… etc..
what does UD do…?
They threaten their dealers and card stores…
if you lower the price on Extended and Plarinum…. you will be cutoff (cut down) from any Connor Bedard rookie year products..
so UD makes more money now and more money next year with CB… but the poor small shops will be stuck with cases of product they cant move… and it will become closer to value zero,,, and everyone will want Bedard product(not in UD series 1)… and card stores will try to make their lost money back.. and in essence .. just break even between the 2 years of product…
why does UD think that only they have a right to make money through their long loyal card stores while card stores have to struggle to just break even..
They ruined this .once best product,,, horrible for their reputation.. besmirching their own name once again with a overpriced.. terrible quality product.
If UD cannot produce even reasonable quality for the product… they should turn in their license.
This product is an absolute embarassment… cards coming out of freshly open product on release date that would frade as a ONE or TWO at the most…
UD.. please resign from hockey cards….
you just cant make the grade and have no idea how to treat your stores and custimers.

Well…after a looooong wait I can say I’m quite disappointed.

I was really hoping that I could justify the price point once I saw boxes get opened on release day. Other than breakers, who I think will quickly struggle with this product, I can’t see myself buying any boxes at this price. Some significant quality issues yet again. I’d have been upset at the $150 range, where this product should be at, let alone paying $250 a box. It sucks because I’m normally a fan of OPC Platinum.

Good luck!

The print run is massive. Lots of scrub rookies. Buy singles.

TCB is dead on! More watered down products with a 2 year late rookie class now & 200 bucks a box presale at dave & adams… definitely a breakers box, again.

Will this ever be released? Do we have a 100th approximate date?

Most recent update I have seen is Nov 30th release date now. We’ll be halfway through the next season before it’s released.

Do you still purchase the product?

I noticed at my local card shop that boxes of recently released product are in stock more this summer.

Valid point. I wonder what the price will be.

I believe the release date for Platinum is on September 30.
I ordered 4 cases of it. Looking forward to collecting Cole Caufield rookie cards.

Go Habs Go!

This product is one of my favourite Upper Deck products all time.
It is not an easy product to collect a master set for obvious reasons. If you like collecting variants of your favourite player then this product is perfect.
I still remember two of my biggest pulls were an Emerald Surge /10 rookie autograph of Auston Matthews and an /10 auto of Wayne Gretzky.
I sold the Matthews card for $1200 at the time and regret doing it like so many other cards that I use to own. That is the hobby.
The only downfall is Upper Deck makes us wait until the next season to open the product.
I have lost interest in so many products due to the wait. It does look like Series 1 may be back on track for a normal release. We will have to wait and see.

When is this product coming out? It is now August.

TCB. Great comparison of years above. I agree 100%. UD is just watering this down so they can mass produce and then on top of it, charge more and more. Here is the change in price for a product that is getting worse:

19-20: $80
20-21: $130
21-22: $200

Addendum!

For the season 2021-22 there are 5 #’d parallels par box, not only 2, like before. Actually, that is an improvement comparing to the previous season. It is actually almost the same ratio to hit a #’d parallel as the 2019-20 season. That being said, the price will go up like crazy for sure, not to mention that you get only 1 auto per box for a higher price.

I can’t believe it! Upper Deck simply doesn’t know when to stop!! And people will pay and pay and pay…

2019-20

4 cards per pack, 20 packs per box, 16 boxes per case (2 inners)

1 Autograph
2 #’d Base parallels

Violet Pixels – #/399
Red Prism – #/199
Arctic Freeze – #/99
Seismic Gold – #/50
Orange Checkers – #/25 (Hobby)
Emerald Surge – #/10
Golden Treasures – 1/1

2020-21

4 cards per pack, 20 packs per box, 16 boxes per case (2 inners)

1 Autograph
2 #’d Base parallels

BUT!!!

Aquamarine – #/499
Violet Pixels – #/399
Yellow Trax – #/249
Red Prism – #/199
Arctic Freeze – #/99
Cosmic – #/65
Seismic Gold – #/50
Orange Checkers – #/25 (Hobby)
Emerald Surge – #/10
Golden Treasures – 1/1

In other words, comparing to the previous season, there were 813 more #’d parallels. The product got watered down big, big time. If before one could get 2 #’d parallels out of 783 possible #’d parallel for every player in the base list, now you get 2 #’d out of 1596 possible #’d parallel for every player in the base list, which is more than double. Obviously, the chances to hit something low are extremely bad.

Now, let’s see 2021-22. The product must have been improved, right?

2021-22

12 cards per pack, 12 packs per box, 16 boxes per case (2 inners)

1 Autograph
5 #’d Base parallels

Hot Magma – #/399
Violet Pixels – #/299
Red Prism – #/199
Arctic Freeze – #/99
Cosmic – #/65
Seismic Gold – #/50
Orange Checkers – #/25 (Hobby)
Emerald Surge – #/10
Golden Treasures – 1/1

Comparing to the previous year, they removed some of the high numbered parallels, so there are now 1147, not 1596 anymore. This is an improvement, right? Well, not really, since the configuration of the product has changed. There are 144 cards per box, versus 80 cards as they were in the past. So, although the number of parallels per player has slightly decreased, the price of the product will be most probably much, much higher than this year. In other words, people will pay much more for slightly better chances to get a #’d parallel.

But that’s not the worst thing. The number of Autos remained the same comparing to the last year. You’ll still get 16 autos in a case, but again, for a much more higher price, since there are more cards in the case.

In conclusion another watered down product…I’m wondering were will they go with this? I’m guessing they will not stop until stores will get stuck with entire cases of the products on their shelves.