Thanks to theScore's Kyle Cushman & Nick Faris who ranked the top 25 players in the league ahead of the PWHL 2024-25 Season I am sharing the TOP 10 from their list!
UPPERDECK's 2024 First Edition PWHL hockey card box is one of the hottest new products that was released on January 22, 2025 and is sold out almost everywhere. It features the league's top stars and prospects and you can pull Young Guns, inserts, numbered Parallels, outbursts and much more!
I'II be chasing the Young Guns of some of my home town favourites like Sarah Nurse, Emma Maltais and Natalie Spooner!

There's no overstating just how significant this week's Upper Deck PWHL release is. In 1992, Manon Rheaume became first woman to appear on her own hockey card. Rheaume’s 1992 Classic cards were the first cards of an individual women’s hockey player ever produced, over 100 years after women started playing hockey.
To put this into context, the first male hockey players to appear on cards were in a set released by Imperial Tobacco in 1910. Hockey cards of male athletes were printed for 82 years(!!!) before the first woman was given the honour of appearing on one.
After Rheaume, more stars of the women’s game - American superstar Cammi Granato and Erin Hamlen (a U.S. goalie and second woman to play in a professional men’s league) - were also depicted on cards.
In 1994, Classic released a set named ‘Women of Hockey’ which included stars from the Canadian and American World Championship rosters. While men's cards still outnumbered womens 1000:1, within two years of the first-ever women’s hockey card, more and more athletes were receiving their first/rookie card.
After that, women’s hockey cards continued to be produced by major card companies but only ever as cards to commemorate special events/moments or as a part of men’s collections, never as a separate, standalone sets (ie. Team Canada Women as part of the Canadian Men's Junior set).
This set breaks the mold. It is a release completely dedicated to a professional women's league and places women's hockey players on long-established and well-loved designs like Young Guns and UD Portrait.
We didn't get cards with embedded memorabilia or autographs this time around, but they will come in future Upper Deck sets.
We're off and running and I, for one, had a blast ripping PWHL packs!

Those of you who follow @womenshockeycards on Instagram know that I create digital custom cards. At first these were based on existing designs but recently I've started creating my own original concepts.

⭐ PWHL First Team All-Stars
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G - Kristen Campbell , Toronto
D - Erin Ambrose, Montreal
D - Ella Shelton, New York
F - Natalie Spooner, Toronto
F - Marie-Philip Poulin, Montreal
F - Alex Carpenter, New York

🔎 Card Design
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I had the idea for this five card puzzle set about a month ago. Like with most designs (or articles I write), I tend to let them stew for a while before I sit down and start working on a first draft (and yes, it's the kind of process that keeps my brain working overtime and gets in the way of sleep 🤪🥱).

I used a simple colour pallate, reminiscent of the 1960s/70s O-Pee-Chee cards, incorporating a couple of retro fonts. Three drafts in, I reduced to clutter to the point where I was satisfied with the negative space. A couple tweaks later, I arrived on the final product.

🌉 Harbridge Hockey Cards
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If you look closely, you'll see that I created a new logo that I'll be using on my original designs. The double H's are in memory of my sister, Helena Harbridge, who is the inspiration for the advocacy work I do in women's sports.

Helena passed away suddenly in her sleep while on a golf scholarship at the University of West Georgia in 2006. Sports helped her find her confidence after struggling with a number of illnesses as a young girl.

📸 Photo Sources
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Erin Ambrose (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images), Natalie Spooner (Alex D’Addese /PWHL), Ella Shelton (PWHL), Marie-Philip Poulin (Mark Blinch/Getty Images), Alex Carpenter (PWHL)