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By Andrew Tolentino | Hockey Editor

With the 2010-11 NHL season now behind us and the final high-end hockey releases afoot, card companies are looking forward with forward-looking lines.

Upper Deck unveiled today a detailed report on what’s to come for retailers stocking its 2011-12 Series One Hockey line. Come November, collectors out running errands (or those doing so as an excuse to buy cards) can look find the manufacturer’s basic brand in 32-card fat packs, 8-card foil packs and 10 (plus two bonus)-pack blasters on retail shelves.

Beyond the 200-card base set, Upper Deck’s signature retail release has a few formulas worth studying this summer.

First, the fat packs:

• Young Guns Rookie Cards (1:4)
• UD Canvas (Regular cards – 1:2.5, Young Guns – 1:24, combined for 1:2 odds)
• All-World Team (1:5)
• All-World Team SP (1:40)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes (1:7)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes Header cards (1:300)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes Art cards (1:300)
• EA’s Ultimate Team (1:8)

Then, the foil:

• 24 packs per box
• Young Guns Rookie Cards (1:4)
• UD Canvas (Regular cards – 1:7, Young Guns – 1:48, combined for 1:6 odds)
• UD Game Jerseys (1:24)
• All-World Team (1:13)
• All-World Team SP (1:120)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes (1:13)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes Header cards (1:600)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes Art cards (1:600)
• EA’s Ultimate Team (1:8)

Last, the blast(er):

• 5 cards per pack
• 10 packs, plus 2 bonus packs
• Young Guns Rookie Cards (1:6)
• UD Canvas (Regular cards – 1:14, Young Guns – 1:96, combined for 1:12 odds)
• UD Game Jerseys (1:240)
• All-World Team (1:27)
• All-World Team SP (1:240)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes (1:25)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes Header cards (1: 1,200)
• 1950s Hockey Heroes Art cards (1:1,200)
• EA’s Ultimate Team (1:8)

By Andrew Tolentino | Hockey Editor

Upper Deck recently released details regarding the late-summer retail release of 2011-12 Victory Hockey.

For hockey fans looking to jump start their 2011-12 collections, this is a brand that hits early and delivers desirably for retail rippers. Each 36-card fat pack should yield: two red parallels, one rookie or superstar insert, and two Victory Rookies.

New to the set are MVP cards, with regular players inserted one in every three packs and MVP rookies falling one in every 18 packs.

Other retail highlights include:

• Red parallel Rookie Cards (two in every five packs)
• Black parallel regular cards (one in 720 packs)
• Black parallel Rookie Cards (one in 1,440 packs)
• Stars of the Game inserts (one in every pack)
• Game Breakers inserts (one in every pack)