2025-26 Upper Deck SPx Hockey Releases Today: Rookie Holograms, Cold Steel Signatures, and the Top Rookies to Chase
SPx Hockey lands today with a 165-card base set, four rookies per box, and a tight Rookie Hologram subset numbered as low as 1/1. Here is the rookie checklist breakdown plus the autograph configuration including new Cold Steel Signatures.
The 2025-26 Upper Deck SPx Hockey release lands today, May 6, 2026, giving collectors their first proper crack at the 2025-26 NHL rookie class in an SPx-branded product. The configuration is tight — eight packs per hobby box, three cards per pack — but the rookie depth and autograph odds make it one of the most efficient entry points into this rookie crop.
The 165-Card Base Set
SPx splits its base set into three clear tiers:
- Cards 1-100 — Star Veterans, the established names anchoring the checklist
- Cards 101-150 — Rookies, with an average of four rookies per box
- Cards 151-165 — Rookie Holograms, the premium short-print rookie tier at 1:86 packs
Rookie Hologram Parallels
The Hologram subset is the chase tier of this release. The parallel rainbow is intentionally compact: Blue numbered to /25, Red numbered to /10, and a 1/1 Gold. With only 15 players in the subset and three parallels apiece, true Hologram completist work on a single rookie is a four-card hunt.
Rookies to Watch
The 50-card rookie pool reflects the post-2025 NHL Draft talent that broke into NHL rosters this season:
- Dalibor Dvorsky — St. Louis Blues, the 2023 first-rounder finally cementing top-six minutes
- Cam Lund — San Jose Sharks, a slick-skating winger getting power-play time
- Olivier Rodrigue — Edmonton Oilers, goaltender depth with starter-track upside
- Sam Rinzel — Chicago Blackhawks, the puck-moving defenseman the rebuild has been waiting on
- Oliver Moore — Chicago Blackhawks, speed-first center with strong NCAA pedigree
Autograph Configuration
SPx Hockey runs autographs through multiple channels rather than a single hit slot. Select base rookies have numbered autograph parallels in Blue (varied numbering by player), Red /25, Gold /10, and Black 1/1. Layered on top are Finite autographs, Superscripts, Rookie Superscripts, and two new additions to the SPx autograph stable: Cold Steel Signatures and Typography.
Cold Steel Signatures is the design Upper Deck has been teasing as the new chase autograph format for the 2025-26 product run, with a brushed-metal print finish and on-card sigs.
Where SPx Sits in the 2025-26 Hockey Calendar
SPx is positioned as the mid-premium rookie product before Upper Deck Premier and The Cup arrive later this year. For collectors who want exposure to this rookie class without the price tag of a Premier or Cup case, today's release is the obvious target. The eight-pack hobby box configuration also makes it more break-friendly than the higher-end products coming later in the calendar.
If you are speccing the rookie class, the Hologram /25 Blue parallels of Rinzel and Moore are the early consensus chases — but watch the Dvorsky /10 Red as a sleeper if his second-half production carries into next season.