Senatorsmith's Complete Ottawa Senators Young Guns Checklist

Upper Deck's Young Guns rookie card brand is definitely the most collected NHL sets in the hobby. After many false starts and restarts, the Upper Deck subset is now zealously expected every season. 

This checklist only summons the standard base Young Guns rookies. The differing parallels, and the inserts (Acetate, Canvas or Retro) versions are not included.

Young Guns rookie cards symbolize one of the last pure aspects of the modern collecting world. 

Young Guns originated in Upper Deck's inaugural offering: 1990-91 Upper Deck Hockey. Although the subset featured rookie cards of Russian superstars Pavel Bure and Sergei Fedorov, the branding did not capture collectors.

The brand went dormant after the 1992-93 season, Young Guns disappeared for several years only to reemerge in UD's unceremoniously thrifty brand: Collector's Choice. Following two largely unadorned issues in Collector's Choice that were redemptions (and nobody likes those, the Young Guns brand repeated it's disappearing act.

The trinitarian brand restart began negligently with 8 skip numbered short prints within 1999-00 Series One. Startlingly, only 2 of the 8 get the RC designation. Since that amazingly weak third rebirth, the Young Guns brand has matured into the most iconic rookie cards in hockey card collecting. 

 

  1. 1995-96 Collector's Choice #406 Daniel Alfredsson RC

 

  1. 1996-97 Collector's Choice 362 Wade Redden

 

  1. 2000-01 Upper Deck #193 Rich Parent RC {easily debatable whether this belongs in your collection)
  2. *2000-01 Upper Deck #198 Dany Heatley RC {iconic Senator pictured in his Team Canada uniform, hence the asterisk)
  3. 2000-01 Upper Deck #223 Jani Hurme RC
  4. 2000-01 Upper Deck #414 Martin Havlat RC
  5. 2000-01 Upper Deck #429 Shane Hnidy RC

 


  1. 2001-02 Upper Deck #200 Joel Kwiatkowski RC
  2. 2001-02 Upper Deck [hobby variation] #437 Ivan Ciernik RC
  3. 2001-02 Upper Deck [retail variation] #437 Ivan Ciernik RC {I wholeheartedly support the return of photo variations with hobby & retail product) 

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ You win the best Sens Young Guns Collection if you find this 

 

  1. 2001-02 Upper Deck #224 Jason Spezza {this extreme scarcity that predates his RC by one year was printed in error. I know of atleast 3 copies.) 

 


  1. 2002-03 Upper Deck #215 Martin Prusek
  2. 2002-03 Upper Deck #216 Chris Bala
  3. 2002-03 Upper Deck #217 Josh Langfeld
  4. 2002-03 Upper Deck #443 Jason Spezza RC
  5. 2002-03 Upper Deck #444 Anton Volchenkov RC

 


  1. 2003-04 Upper Deck #231 Antoine Vermette RC
  2. 2003-04 Upper Deck #453 Julien Vauclair RC

 


  1. 2005-06 Upper Deck #228 Andrej Meszaros RC
  2. 2005-06 Upper Deck #238 Brandon Bochenski RC
  3. 2005-06 Upper Deck #458 Patrick Eaves RC
  4. 2005-06 Upper Deck #460 Christoph Schubert RC

 


  1. 2006-07 Upper Deck #478 Alexei Kaigorodov RC
  2. 2006-07 Upper Deck #479 Kelly Guard RC

 


  1. 2007-08 Upper Deck #237 Brian Elliott RC
  2. 2007-08 Upper Deck #238 Nick Foligno RC
  3. 2007-08 Upper Deck #486 Alexander Nikulin RC

 


  1. 2008-09 Upper Deck #231 Brian Lee RC
  2. 2008-09 Upper Deck #232 Ilya Zubov RC
  3. 2008-09 Upper Deck #482 Jesse Winchester RC

 


  1. 2009-10 Upper Deck #210 Erik Karlsson RC
  2. 2009-10 Upper Deck #224 Peter Regin RC
  3. 2009-10 Upper Deck #483 Ryan Keller RC

 


  1. 2010-11 Upper Deck #239 Jared Cowen RC
  2. 2010-11 Upper Deck #486 Robin Lehner RC

 


  1. 2011-12 Upper Deck #229 Mika Zibanejad RC
  2. 2011-12 Upper Deck #230 Colin Greening RC
  3. 2011-12 Upper Deck #231 Patrick Wiercioch RC
  4. 2011-12 Upper Deck #232 Erik Condra RC
  5. 2011-12 Upper Deck #233 Stephane Da Costa RC

 


  1. 2012-13 Upper Deck #238 Jakob Silfverberg RC
  2. 2012-13 Upper Deck #239 Mark Stone RC

 


  1. 2013-14 Upper Deck #209 Jean-Gabriel Pageau RC
  2. 2013-14 Upper Deck #210 Cory Conacher  RC
  3. 2013-14 Upper Deck #475 Cody Ceci  RC

 


  1. 2014-15 Upper Deck #237 Curtis Lazar  RC
  2. 2014-15 Upper Deck Update #528 Andrew Hammond RC (seeded within 2014-15 SP Authentic, Young Guns updates #521-530 were inserted 1:25 packs, a little tougher than 1 per box). 

 


  1. 2015-16 Upper Deck #215 Matt Puempel  RC
  2. 2015-16 Upper Deck #218 Shane Prince  RC
  3. 2015-16 Upper Deck #233 Matt O'Connor  RC
  4. 2015-16 Upper Deck #460 Chris Wideman  RC
  5. 2015-16 Upper Deck #476 Max McCormick  RC
  6. 2015-16 Upper Deck #482 Chris Driedger  RC
  7. 2015-16 Upper Deck Update #527 Fredrik Claesson RC  (seeded within 2015-15 SP Authentic, Young Gun updates #521-530 were inserted 1:25 packs, a little tougher than 1 per box).

  1. 2016-17 Upper Deck #219 Nick Paul  RC 2016-17 S1
  2. 2016-17 Upper Deck #488 Thomas Chabot  RC 2016-17 S2

  1. 2017-18 Upper Deck #217 Logan Brown - 2017-18 S1
  2. 2017-18 Upper Deck #219 Alex Formenton - 2017-18 S1
  3. 2017-18 Upper Deck #462 Christian Jaros - 2017-18 S2
  4. 2017-18 Upper Deck #472 Filip Chlapik - 2017-18 S2
  5. 2017-18 Upper Deck #489 Jack Rodewald - 2017-18 S2
  6. 2017-18 Upper Deck #493 Colin White - 2017-18 S2

  1. 2018-19 Upper Deck #223 Maxime Lajoie - 2018-19 S1
  2. 2018-19 Upper Deck #460 Christian Wolanin - 2018-19 S2
  3. 2018-19 Upper Deck #484 Drake Batherson - 2018-19 S2
  4. 2018-19 Upper Deck #499 Brady Tkachuk - 2018-19 S2
  5. 2018-19 Upper Deck #500 Andrei Svechnikov / Brady Tkachuk Checklist

  1. 2015-16 Upper Deck #218 Rudolfs Balcers - 2019-20 S1
  2. 2015-16 Upper Deck #220 Scott Sabourin - 2019-20 S1
  3. 2015-16 Upper Deck #227 Vitaly Abramov - 2019-20 S1
  4. 2015-16 Upper Deck #464 Erik Brannstrom - 2019-20 S2
  5. 2015-16 Upper Deck #477 Joey Daccord - 2019-20 S2
  6. 2015-16 Upper Deck #479 Jonathan Davidsson - 2019-20 S2
  7. 2015-16 Upper Deck #482 Max Veronneau - 2019-20 S2
  8. 2015-16 Upper Deck #520 J.C. Beaudin - 2019-20 SPA

  1. 2020-21 Upper Deck #209 Josh Norris - 2020-21 S1
  2. 2020-21 Upper Deck #482 Tim Stutzle - 2020-21 S2
  3. 2020-21 Upper Deck #500 Tim Stutzle/Dylan Cozens Checklist
  4. 2020-21 Upper Deck #710 Artem Zub - 2020-21 Ext

  1. 2021-22 Upper Deck #203 Olle Alsing RC
  2. 2021-22 Upper Deck #225 Filip Gustavsson  RC
  3. 2021-22 Upper Deck #240 Parker Kelly  RC
  4. 2021-22 Upper Deck #246 Shane Pinto  RC
  5. 2021-22 Upper Deck #495 Jacob Bernard-Docker  RC
  6. 2021-22 Upper Deck #717 Egor Sokolov  RC
  7. 2021-22 Upper Deck #728 Lassi Thomson  RC

  1. 2022-23 Upper Deck #215 Mark Kastelic 
  2. 2022-23 Upper Deck #245 Mads Sogaard
  3. 2022-23 Upper Deck #458 Cole Reinhardt 
  4. 2022-23 Upper Deck #466 Jake Sanderson
  5. 2022-23 Upper Deck #471 Viktor Lodin
  6. 2022-23 Upper Deck #481 Kevin Mandolese
  7. 2022-23 Upper Deck Extended #724 Jake Lucchini