2023-24 Upper Deck MVP Hockey Forum

The thing that bothers me most about this set (and it's the first time I've ever encountered this with a set involving current players, not retired players/legends/etc.) is that, even though it's for the upcoming season, some of the players' cards has them with the team they were with at the beginning of the previous season. For example, upon opening my first pack, I saw that they have Shayne Gostisbehere (#184) still with Arizona, when he was traded to the Hurricanes at the trade deadline. Could they not find a suitable picture of him in a 'Canes jersey? I feel like this is Upper Deck just being lazy and it's deterring me from purchasing any more packs of the 23-24 MVP or subsequent sets.

Not just Upper Deck. Topps and Panini are just as lazy when it comes to publishing correct/updated uniforms. They are all guilty of putting out product that is inaccurate. Topps loves photoshopping when they get around to it. While there is a lead time to get a set out the door (when everything needs to be set and sent to the printer) in today's day and age it can't be that long.

Patrick Kane appears as a Blackhawk. Did I just imagine him being traded to the rangers? I’d assume a Kane card in a Rangers uniform would be important to some Rangers fans whether he re-signs there or not. 

I opened up another pack and saw the Jakub Voracek card, which I thought was the same image they used for the previous MVP set for him. It's not, but it looks like the images were taken a second apart (going by the background). Lazy AF! 

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/305554/cid/19318317/2022-23-Upper-Deck-MVP-82-Jakub-Voracek

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/353105/cid/22156697/2023-24-Upper-Deck-MVP-32-Jakub-Voracek

Yeah, but they captured that carefully-cropped message to collectors on the rink boards behind him!