2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 Best Young Guns Cards (Plus Checklist)

Upper Deck Young Guns rookie cards are right up there with Donruss Rated Rookies regarding our favorite branding for a card manufacturers rookie card. We would give it the nod above Rated Rookies, as Young Guns rookie cards are epic.

If you love Upper Deck Young Guns rookie cards like us, check out our Best Young Guns Hockey Cards of All-Time write-up.

Below are our top 10 Young Guns rookie cards from the 2021-22 Uppder Deck Series 2 set. These Young Guns have some outstanding talent, so buying a hobby box isn’t a bad idea. We purchased a few boxes and scored the cream of the crop YG card in Moritz Seider. If you are lucky enough to pull him, send it to PSA for grading ASAP.

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Best 2021 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns

• Moritz Seider 2021-22 UD Series 2 Young Guns #KBR
• Spencer Knight 2021-22 UD Series 2 Young Guns Canvas
• Quinton Byfield 2021-22 UD Series 2 Young Guns #488
• William Eklund 2021-22 UD Series 2 Young Guns #475
• Cole Caufield 2021-22 UD Series 2 Young Guns Canvas
• Anton Lundell 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns UD Exclusives /100
• Cole Perfetti 2021-22 UPPER DECK Series 2 Young Guns #466
• Lucas Raymond 2021-22 Upper Deck Young Guns RC
• Cole Sillinger 2021-22 Series 2 Young Guns #498
• Mason McTavish 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns Clear Cut #451
• Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns Canvas Black RC
• John-Jason Peterka 2021-22 Upper Deck Series Young Guns RC
• Mason McTavish 2021-22 Series 2 Young Guns FRENCH #451
• Taylor Raddysh 2021-22 UD Series 2 Young Guns #453 Rookie
• Cam Talbot 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns Retro SSP

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Parallel Cards

• French
• Clear Cut
• Exclusives /100
• High Gloss /10

EPack Achievement Parallels

• Silver Foil
• Speckled Rainbow Foil

Base Checklist (200 cards)

251 Maxime Comtois – Anaheim Ducks
252 Ryan Getzlaf – Anaheim Ducks
253 Hampus Lindholm – Anaheim Ducks
254 Rickard Rakell – Anaheim Ducks
255 Kevin Shattenkirk – Anaheim Ducks
256 Sam Steel – Anaheim Ducks
257 Lawson Crouse – Arizona Coyotes
258 Christian Fischer – Arizona Coyotes
259 Barrett Hayton – Arizona Coyotes
260 Phil Kessel – Arizona Coyotes
261 Johan Larsson – Arizona Coyotes
262 Ilya Lyubushkin – Arizona Coyotes
263 Brandon Carlo – Boston Bruins
264 Connor Clifton – Boston Bruins
265 Trent Frederic – Boston Bruins
266 Taylor Hall – Boston Bruins
267 David Pastrnak – Boston Bruins
268 Mike Reilly – Boston Bruins
269 Zemgus Girgensons – Buffalo Sabres
270 Henri Jokiharju – Buffalo Sabres
271 Colin Miller – Buffalo Sabres
272 Casey Mittelstadt – Buffalo Sabres
273 Victor Olofsson – Buffalo Sabres
274 Kyle Okposo – Buffalo Sabres
275 Mikael Backlund – Calgary Flames
276 Dillon Dube – Calgary Flames
277 Elias Lindholm – Calgary Flames
278 Andrew Mangiapane – Calgary Flames
279 Jacob Markstrom – Calgary Flames
280 Christopher Tanev – Calgary Flames
281 Juuso Valimaki – Calgary Flames
282 Jesper Fast – Carolina Hurricanes
283 Jake Gardiner – Carolina Hurricanes
284 Nino Niederreiter – Carolina Hurricanes
285 Brady Skjei – Carolina Hurricanes
286 Andrei Svechnikov – Carolina Hurricanes
287 Teuvo Teravainen – Carolina Hurricanes
288 Vincent Trocheck – Carolina Hurricanes
289 Kirby Dach – Chicago Blackhawks
290 Calvin de Haan – Chicago Blackhawks
291 Brandon Hagel – Chicago Blackhawks
292 Patrick Kane – Chicago Blackhawks
293 Connor Murphy – Chicago Blackhawks
294 Jonathan Toews – Chicago Blackhawks
295 Andre Burakovsky – Colorado Avalanche
296 Bowen Byram – Colorado Avalanche
297 Tyson Jost – Colorado Avalanche
298 Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado Avalanche
299 Valeri Nichushkin – Colorado Avalanche
300 Mikko Rantanen – Colorado Avalanche
301 Oliver Bjorkstrand – Columbus Blue Jackets
302 Vladislav Gavrikov – Columbus Blue Jackets
303 Boone Jenner – Columbus Blue Jackets
304 Joonas Korpisalo – Columbus Blue Jackets
305 Patrik Laine – Columbus Blue Jackets
306 Alexandre Texier – Columbus Blue Jackets
307 Jamie Benn – Dallas Stars
308 Radek Faksa – Dallas Stars
309 Roope Hintz – Dallas Stars
310 Esa Lindell – Dallas Stars
311 John Klingberg – Dallas Stars
312 Joe Pavelski – Dallas Stars
313 Tyler Bertuzzi – Detroit Red Wings
314 Robby Fabbri – Detroit Red Wings
315 Sam Gagner – Detroit Red Wings
316 Filip Hronek – Detroit Red Wings
317 Dylan Larkin – Detroit Red Wings
318 Michael Rasmussen – Detroit Red Wings
319 Marc Staal – Detroit Red Wings
320 Tyson Barrie – Edmonton Oilers
321 Leon Draisaitl – Edmonton Oilers
322 Zack Kassian – Edmonton Oilers
323 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – Edmonton Oilers
324 Mike Smith – Edmonton Oilers
325 Kailer Yamamoto – Edmonton Oilers
326 Aleksander Barkov – Florida Panthers
327 Sam Bennett – Florida Panthers
328 Anthony Duclair – Florida Panthers
329 Aaron Ekblad – Florida Panthers
330 Owen Tippett – Florida Panthers
331 Frank Vatrano – Florida Panthers
332 Jaret Anderson-Dolan – Los Angeles Kings
333 Andreas Athanasiou – Los Angeles Kings
334 Dustin Brown – Los Angeles Kings
335 Anze Kopitar – Los Angeles Kings
336 Jonathan Quick – Los Angeles Kings
337 Gabe Vilardi – Los Angeles Kings
338 Jonas Brodin – Minnesota Wild
339 Matt Dumba – Minnesota Wild
340 Joel Eriksson Ek – Minnesota Wild
341 Kevin Fiala – Minnesota Wild
342 Ryan Hartman – Minnesota Wild
343 Cam Talbot – Minnesota Wild
344 Joel Armia – Montreal Canadiens
345 Jonathan Drouin – Montreal Canadiens
346 Artturi Lehkonen – Montreal Canadiens
347 Carey Price – Montreal Canadiens
348 Alexander Romanov – Montreal Canadiens
349 Nick Suzuki – Montreal Canadiens
350 Nick Cousins – Nashville Predators
351 Matt Duchene – Nashville Predators
352 Dante Fabbro – Nashville Predators
353 Mikael Granlund – Nashville Predators
354 Rocco Grimaldi – Nashville Predators
355 Colton Sissons – Nashville Predators
356 Janne Kuokkanen – New Jersey Devils
357 Michael McLeod – New Jersey Devils
358 Damon Severson – New Jersey Devils
359 Yegor Sharangovich – New Jersey Devils
360 P.K. Subban – New Jersey Devils
361 Pavel Zacha – New Jersey Devils
362 Mathew Barzal – New York Islanders
363 Anthony Beauvillier – New York Islanders
364 Casey Cizikas – New York Islanders
365 Brock Nelson – New York Islanders
366 Ilya Sorokin – New York Islanders
367 Oliver Wahlstrom – New York Islanders
368 Filip Chytil – New York Rangers
369 Ryan Lindgren – New York Rangers
370 Kevin Rooney – New York Rangers
371 Igor Shesterkin – New York Rangers
372 Ryan Strome – New York Rangers
373 Mika Zibanejad – New York Rangers
374 Drake Batherson – Ottawa Senators
375 Connor Brown – Ottawa Senators
376 Matt Murray – Ottawa Senators
377 Nick Paul – Ottawa Senators
378 Brady Tkachuk – Ottawa Senators
379 Nikita Zaitsev – Ottawa Senators
380 Nicolas Aube-Kubel – Philadelphia Flyers
381 Sean Couturier – Philadelphia Flyers
382 Scott Laughton – Philadelphia Flyers
383 Ivan Provorov – Philadelphia Flyers
384 Travis Sanheim – Philadelphia Flyers
385 James van Riemsdyk – Philadelphia Flyers
386 Zach Aston-Reese – Pittsburgh Penguins
387 Teddy Blueger – Pittsburgh Penguins
388 Kris Letang – Pittsburgh Penguins
389 Evgeni Malkin – Pittsburgh Penguins
390 John Marino – Pittsburgh Penguins
391 Bryan Rust – Pittsburgh Penguins
392 Alexander Barabanov – San Jose Sharks
393 Rudolfs Balcers – San Jose Sharks
394 Logan Couture – San Jose Sharks
395 Erik Karlsson – San Jose Sharks
396 John Leonard – San Jose Sharks
397 Matt Nieto – San Jose Sharks
398 Chris Driedger – Seattle Kraken
399 Jordan Eberle – Seattle Kraken
400 Haydn Fleury – Seattle Kraken
401 Mark Giordano – Seattle Kraken
402 Jamie Oleksiak – Seattle Kraken
403 Brandon Tanev – Seattle Kraken
404 Ivan Barbashev – St. Louis Blues
405 Jordan Kyrou – St. Louis Blues
406 Ryan O’Reilly – St. Louis Blues
407 Colton Parayko – St. Louis Blues
408 Marco Scandella – St. Louis Blues
409 Robert Thomas – St. Louis Blues
410 Mathieu Joseph – Tampa Bay Lightning
411 Alex Killorn – Tampa Bay Lightning
412 Nikita Kucherov – Tampa Bay Lightning
413 Patrick Maroon – Tampa Bay Lightning
414 Ryan McDonagh – Tampa Bay Lightning
415 Brayden Point – Tampa Bay Lightning
416 Steven Stamkos – Tampa Bay Lightning
417 Mitch Marner – Toronto Maple Leafs
418 Auston Matthews – Toronto Maple Leafs
419 Ilya Mikheyev – Toronto Maple Leafs
420 Jake Muzzin – Toronto Maple Leafs
421 Wayne Simmonds – Toronto Maple Leafs
422 Jason Spezza – Toronto Maple Leafs
423 Brock Boeser – Vancouver Canucks
424 Travis Hamonic – Vancouver Canucks
425 Quinn Hughes – Vancouver Canucks
426 Matthew Highmore – Vancouver Canucks
427 Tyler Motte – Vancouver Canucks
428 Brandon Sutter – Vancouver Canucks
429 Robin Lehner – Vegas Golden Knights
430 Alec Martinez – Vegas Golden Knights
431 Max Pacioretty – Vegas Golden Knights
432 Alex Pietrangelo – Vegas Golden Knights
433 Mark Stone – Vegas Golden Knights
434 Brayden McNabb – Vegas Golden Knights
435 Zach Whitecloud – Vegas Golden Knights
436 Anthony Mantha – Washington Capitals
437 Dmitry Orlov – Washington Capitals
438 T.J. Oshie – Washington Capitals
439 Alex Ovechkin – Washington Capitals
440 Ilya Samsonov – Washington Capitals
441 Conor Sheary – Washington Capitals
442 Tom Wilson – Washington Capitals
443 Kyle Connor – Winnipeg Jets
444 Andrew Copp – Winnipeg Jets
445 Nikolaj Ehlers – Winnipeg Jets
446 Connor Hellebuyck – Winnipeg Jets
447 Neal Pionk – Winnipeg Jets
448 Paul Stastny – Winnipeg Jets
449 Nathan MacKinnon/Leon Draisaitl CL
450 Nikita Kucherov/Alex Ovechkin CL