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Originally Posted by codered
Out of curiosity when did UD start having to push back rookies? I haven’t collected hockey really since Matthews rookie year but I remember as far back as 05-06 you almost always had the top pick in series 1 and another big name saved for series 2. Why the change?
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UD has been way behind. The only way to get caught up on flagship was to print S1 over the summer so it’ll be out by next week, and NHLPA rules say you can’t make a card of a player until he skates in a regular season game so they weren’t allowed to print any cards of him ahead of time. All the rookies in S1 are holdovers from late last season that they’re allowed to make cards of. The new crop will have to wait. Maybe by next year they’ll be mostly caught up on everything and can go back to the old way of top guys being in S1.
Lafreniere got a one-time exception to this rule since he was drafted during peak Covid and there was no rookie showcase event or anything else that year so they were allowed to jump the gun that one time. Not going to happen again even for Bedard.