Trevor Moore's only RC is in 18/19 Compendium. I doubt he will have any in 19/20. Therefore, its his RC.
Plenty of other players in the last few years fall under that category. Compendium is extra weird.... in addition to being an online, ePack, exclusive: The "base" card isn't even physical... you're getting a parallel.
I don't remember last year's set well enough to go off the cuff.... but 17-18 had base, blue, and gold... 10 bases to get a blue.... 100 base to get a gold.
The blue is a RC then, since is the easier one to get than the gold?
2018-19 would be an XRC. If people are going to consider a one off online exclusive insert to be his only true RC, then this hobby is in all kinds of trouble. ePack was a great idea when it first came out and for the first year or so, but has just turned into yet another money grab for UD.
It was always a money grab, lol.
Is it an insert though? It's card #79 in the "base set" of Game Dated moments.
Things have changed since then, though. According to the current rules, Hughes was not eligible for 18-19 rookie cards, so the GDM is just merely an XRC insert.
That's probably true (was not eligible for a RC last year). I'm curious about the language of that "rule" though. I suspect that the NHLPA cares very little about defining a Rookie Card. What's more likely is language that reads something like "a player must have played by a particular date, in order to be in one of these sets that we're granting a license for".
Of course this brings up two questions for me:
1. How do Upper Deck's ePack exclusives relate to the number of licensed sets they can produce?
Exquisite, for example, is a set that mixed across several different releases (unless it was made into its own set this year? But I don't think so...). I suspect that means it doesn't count as part of the total number of releases UD is allowed to pump out a year. Overtime, same thing. I don't know what the number they get, per year, is.... but say it's 20. Does online-only... no physical packs.... sets count as one of those 20? Is it covered under something else they're allowed to make?
2. Did Upper Deck violate the terms of their agreement, by making hockey cards of Quinn Hughes last year?
I suspect the reason there is a cut off date has nothing to do with the PA being concerned that UD won't be able to give players a full slate of RCs.... it likely has to do with the pressure UD puts on Rookie to sign cards (and stickers) for them, so a reasonable cut off date has to be in place - to keep the autograph requests reasonable.
When I read the thread, my immediate thought was "XRC".... but I through out the Compendium question at the tail end of that post, because I've always considered the 10x Base card parallel from Compendium to be a RC.... but I can't think of a single reason why Compendium cards should be considered Rookie Cards, while the Game Dated Moments should not.
