Toronto, Tuesday September 22, 2015
Hobby shop owners and collectors are bracing for the biggest year in collecting NHL� and NHLPA-licensed trading cards in over a decade. The excitement has been palpable as Upper Deck has already sold out of the first five releases of the 2015-16 calendar season (MVP, O-Pee-Chee, Artifacts, Upper Deck Series One and most recently Black Diamond) because of the strong rookie class this season led primarily by Connor McDavid. Recently the Globe and Mail did a story on the effect Connor is having in the industry thus far and Stephen Laroche from Beckett Media previously prognosticated what his presence may do for trading cards of other Edmonton Oilers players.

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