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Sidney Crosby
2005 · Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns · #201
Crosby’s Upper Deck #201 Young Guns rookie from Series One.
- Sport
- Hockey
- Year / season
- 2005
- Set
- Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns
- Number
- #201
- Format
- Card
- Issue status
- Rookie card
About this card
Sidney Crosby’s 2005 Upper Deck Hockey card is number 201 in that release, in the Young Guns edition. Upper Deck has made NHL cards since 1990-91, and its Series 1 and Series 2 sets are the league’s flagship release. In modern sets, rookies appear as Young Guns, a short-printed subset with its own design, and Young Guns are among the most collected modern hockey cards.
The catalog labels this a rookie card, based on the source cited below.
How to identify it
Young Guns sit inside the main numbering, so a number alone does not tell you whether a card is a Young Gun; look for the Young Guns banner. Parallels such as Exclusives and High Gloss share the number but are serial-numbered or differently finished.
Young Guns is part of this card’s name: it marks an insert or parallel inside Upper Deck Hockey, and the number on its own can point to a different card.
In Sidney Crosby’s run
Sidney Crosby has 4 entries in this catalog, from 2005 to 2024–25, and this is the earliest of them. Nearby entries are listed below, so you can compare the releases that sit around this one.
- Sidney Crosby, 2019–20 Upper Deck Hockey #100
- Sidney Crosby, 2024–25 Upper Deck Hockey — Dazzlers Blue #DZ-36
- Sidney Crosby, 2024–25 Upper Deck Hockey — Playlist #PL-7
In the 2005 checklist
This is the only entry from the 2005 Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns release in the catalog so far. The full release has more cards; this page covers the one cataloged here.
What to know about this issue
- The original #201 has a full-length skating photograph.
- PSA describes this issue as unsigned and not serial-numbered; do not confuse it with a different Crosby autograph or numbered rookie.
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The issue stays 2005 · Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.
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