The NHLPA has a rule that no player can be featured on a licensed trading card until they have a played in an official NHL® game, which leaves Upper Deck just shy of five weeks to get the company’s most popular rookie cards, known as the “Young Guns,” created. It’s a great rule, but it only allows one weekend to acquire photos and then ultimately turn them around that week to production to get them created in time for the release of 2017-18 NHL® Upper Deck Series One which releases on November 9, 2017.

On that day there will be more than a few collectors calling in sick to work so they can head to their local card shop and break not only boxes of the product, but cases in an annual quest to put the set together and chase the new crop of Young Guns!

Upper Deck typically has made a point of separating some of the rookie cards between Series One and Series Two and that will be the case this year. Some of the bigger players to be held over to have their official Young Guns rookie cards in Series Two are Nolan Patrick and Clayton Keller in particular. They will however have Canvas Young Guns available in Series One which are a bit more rare than the Young Guns rookie cards and are printed on a canvas-like paper stock.

Take a look at the new crop of 2017-18 NHL® Upper Deck Series One Young Guns cards:

201 Nico Hischier Devils 202 Kailer Yamamoto Oilers 203 Anders Bjork Bruins 204 Pierre-Luc Dubois Blue Jackets 205 Josh Ho-Sang Islanders 206 Jon Gillies Flames 207 Lucas Wallmark Hurricanes 208 Denis Gurianov Stars 209 Alex Kerfoot Avalanche 210 Adrian Kempe Kings 211 John Hayden Blackhawks 212 Jake DeBrusk Bruins 213 Janne Kuokkanen Hurricanes 214 Travis Sanheim Flyers 215 Gabriel Carlsson Blue Jackets 216 Calle Rosen Maple Leafs 217 Logan Brown Senators 218 Rasmus Andersson Flames 219 Alex Formenton Senators 220 Ian McCoshen Panthers 221 Alex DeBrincat Blackhawks 222 Alexander Nylander Sabres 223 Nathan Walker Capitals 224 Evgeny Svechnikov Red Wings 225 C.J. Smith Sabres 226 Samuel Morin Flyers 227 Filip Chytil Rangers 228 Tage Thompson Blues 229 Andreas Borgman Maple Leafs 230 Ivan Barbashev Blues 231 Jonny Brodzinski Kings 232 Robert Hagg Flyers 233 Riley Barber Capitals 234 Christian Fischer Coyotes 235 Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson Bruins 236 Haydn Fleury Hurricanes 237 Marcus Sorensen Sharks 238 Vladislav Kamenev Predators 239 Jake Dotchin Lightning 240 Jack Roslovic Jets 241 Nicolas Kerdiles Ducks 242 Charlie McAvoy Bruins 243 Carter Rowney Penguins 244 Vince Dunn Blues 245 Victor Mete Canadiens 246 Tyson Jost Avalanche 247 Brock Boeser Canucks 248 Will Butcher Devils 249 Alex Tuch Golden Knights 250 Hischier/Boeser Devils/Canucks

And here are the 2017-18 NHL® Upper Deck Series One Young Guns Canvas cards: