by Chris Coomber

Upper Deck’s focus with this years Ice hockey cards was on innovation, quality and long term value and as a result Ice has become one of the most sought after hockey card sets of 2005-06

After missing a year because of the NHL Lockout, Upper Deck’s popular Ice product is back and better than ever. Along with being jam packed with this years top rookies, 05/06 Ice features eye catching signature acetate patch cards. The acetate autographs mark a milestone in the hockey card industry, being that no other set has ever featured patch card versions of acetate autographs.

Collectors will love the fact that 2005-06 Upper Deck Ice includes five sequentially numbered rookies cards and two memorabilia cards in every box. The Ice Hockey Brand utilizes revolutionary PETG technology (clear acetate) on rookie and memorabilia cards ,and on the new autographed acetate patch cards (numbered to 10).

Rookies Include: Crosby, Ovechkin, Barker, Ward, Vanek, Phaneuf, Brule, Lundqvist, Carter, Richards, Getzlaf and much more.

Regular cards include three or four players from each team. Collectors will have fun collecting the four levels of the Ice Premieres insert set numbered from 2999 to 99, and the Cool Threads set combines jersey, patch and acetate parallels with an autograph to top things off.

2005-06 Ice has lots to offer every collector and includes some of the best looking cards of the year.

Basic Info: 100 card base set, Ice Premieres (Level 4) – numbered to 2,999,
Ice Premieres (Level 3) – numbered to 1,999,
Ice Premieres (Level 2) – numbered to 999,
Ice Premieres (Level 1) – numbered to 99

Parallels & Autographs : Cool Threads (Jersey Card) – Inserted 1:36, Frozen Fabrics (Jersey Card) – Inserted 1:36, Fresh Ice (Jersey Card) – Inserted 1:36, Glacial Graphs (Signature Card) – Inserted 1:40, Signature Swatches (Signed Jersey Card) – Inserted 1:320, Cool Threads (Acetate Jersey Card Parallel) – numbered to 100, Frozen Fabrics (Acetate Jersey Card Parallel) – numbered to 100, Autographed Cool Threads (Signed Acetate Jersey Card Parallel) – numbered to 35, Autographed Frozen Fabrics (Signed Acetate Jersey Card Parallel) – numbered to 35, Autographed Ice Premieres Patch (Signed Acetate Patch Card Parallel) – numbered to 10, Cool Threads Patch (Acetate Patch Card Parallel) – numbered to 50, Frozen Fabrics Patch (Acetate Patch Card Parallel) – numbered to 50, Autographed Cool Threads Patch (Signed Acetate Patch Card Parallel) – numbered to 15, Autographed Frozen Fabrics Patch (Signed Acetate Patch Card Parallel) – numbered to 10, Fresh Ice (Jersey PETG Parallel) – inserted 1:60, Fresh Ice (Patch PETG Parallel) – numbered to 50

Parallel Cards and Inserts: Regular Cards (Rainbow Parallel) – numbered to 100

About the author:

Chris Coomber is a hockey card and sports card dealer. His company, Grizzly Sports Cards has one of the widest selections of sealed wax sports cards boxes on the Internet. Upper Deck Ice Hockey Cards are available at Grizzly Sports Cards.