Macklin Celebrini Rookie Card Guide and Values

Published July 29, 2026 by Ryan Watson

Macklin Celebrini went first overall to the San Jose Sharks in the 2024 NHL Draft, and his cardboard has been one of the hottest tickets in the hobby ever since. If you pulled his Young Guns or you are thinking about buying one, this is the complete guide: every version worth knowing, what they are actually selling for, and which copy makes sense for your budget.

This is a companion to the hockey rookie cards hub, applied to the single most chased rookie of the current class.

The Flagship: The 2024-25 Young Guns

Celebrini’s rookie card that matters is the 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns #451. As covered in the rookie hub, Upper Deck slots the year’s headline rookie at #451, and Celebrini owns that slot for 2024-25. It is the card the whole market means when it says “Celebrini rookie,” and the one pictured in this guide from my own collection.

Everything else in his rookie lineup, the parallels, the inserts, the autographs, orbits this base card. Understand the base and the rest of the ladder makes sense.

The Value Ladder

Celebrini’s rookie cards form a clean pyramid, from attainable to grail:

• Base Young Guns #451: the entry point, around $375 raw as of mid-2026 per Sports Card Investor tracking.
• Young Guns PSA 10: the gem-mint premium, reported between roughly $2,075 and $4,145.
• Numbered parallels: Clear Cut, Outburst Silver, Deluxe /250, UD Exclusives /100, and the tough Outburst Red /25 climb steeply with scarcity.
• The Cup Rookie Patch Auto /99: the apex, with a Gold variation reportedly selling for $37,000 in December 2025.

This is the value-factor pyramid in miniature: same player, wildly different prices, driven entirely by scarcity and configuration.

Young Guns Value by Grade

The grade gap on his base Young Guns is dramatic, and it is the whole reason grading matters on a card like this:

• Raw: around $375, though it drifts with his on-ice performance and the broader market.
• PSA 9: near $405, a modest step over raw.
• PSA 10: roughly $2,075 to $4,145, several times the nine.

That jump from nine to ten is the engine of modern rookie grading. It also means honest condition assessment is everything: a card you are sure will gem but that grades a nine can turn an expected profit into a loss. Run any grading decision through the ROI calculator before submitting.

The Parallels and The Cup

Above the base sit the cards that make Celebrini collectors lose sleep. The numbered Young Guns parallels, Outburst Red numbered to just 25 chief among them, are genuinely scarce and priced accordingly. His autographed and patch cards from higher-end products climb further.

At the very top is the 2024-25 The Cup Rookie Patch Auto, numbered to 99, combining a rookie card, an on-card autograph, and a game-worn patch. It is the same configuration that makes the most valuable modern hockey cards what they are, and Celebrini’s has performed accordingly: a reported $37,000 Gold sale in late 2025 and another near $30,100 shortly after. Verify any high-end copy through the PSA cert lookup before buying, because the cards most worth faking are exactly these.

Which Celebrini Should You Buy?

My honest take: for most collectors the base Young Guns #451 is the right Celebrini, either raw as a hand-picked copy or as a PSA 10 if you want the blue-chip version. He sits mid-cycle on the hype curve, which means today’s prices reflect genuine demand more than debut froth, but they still move with his play. Pull recent eBay sold listings using the sold-price method and check the trend on Card Ladder before you buy. To see the other stages of the hype curve, compare the settled Connor Bedard and the brand-new Matthew Schaefer.

All values are reported ranges from public marketplace data as of July 2026 and change with the market and his performance. Not financial advice. Verify against current sold listings.