Exactly! It’s not even a card of Patrick Kane. I get paying more for one of the parallels of that set, but like, it’s the worst of the Turgeon brothers. And also Dale Hawerchuk and Doug Bodger.
Think of it this way...it is the Frick Face Billy Ripken card of hockey cards.
In the old days of collecting, a Home Run leaders card with guys like Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey was not considered a collectible card, unlike an actual Hank Aaron card and a Willie McCovey card, and were relegated to the commons bin. But nowadays, people really like these kinds of cards with multiple big name HOFers, despite not being the player's actual card. Same with Highlights and Record Breakers cards...as long as it's someone highly collectible on the card in some way, it's a valued and appreciated card. This is especially true if the card has a high PSA grade...because the PSA set registry collectors consider these cards 100% part of the set registry.
So, times change and demand changes too. The hockey card market right now is going through a massive change in demand (in other words, what people consider as valueable). The last 10+ years' worth of Upper Deck rookie card collecting has 99% been focused on cards made after a player has played X number of games in the NHL (Young Guns, for example).
However back in the 90s, Upper Deck made many elite stars' cards of player s in their pre-NHL uniform (Niedermayer - WJC Team Canada, Selanne - Canada Cup Team Finland, Forsberg - 1st round draft pick, and many others like Kariya, Lindros, Potvin, Lidstrom, Chris Drury, Bure, Kovalev, Jagr, etc.). Nowadays, many of those players' second year cards, first in their NHL uniforms on playing on NHL ice, are now worth money too, in high grade. This shift in paradigm reflects baseball card collecting, where MLB tells card manufacturers they can use the RC symbol designation on cards with the player in their MLB uniform in a real game while the Bowman brand has prospect players in their minor league uniforms.
