After months of searching, New Jersey Devils fans finally have a shot at a piece of Jack Hughes history.
The card in question is the 1-of-1 Topps hockey card tied to Hughes’s overtime winner against Canada at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, the goal that sent the U.S. men to gold and stamped the moment as the “Golden Goal.” The card carries the inscription "Golden Goal 2/22/26 Go USA!" and, according to Topps, it is the only one with that exact message.
That matters because the card had been elusive since the massive release it came from. Most collectors ended up with common cards after paying the same price, while a few versions featured different photos from the night.
A small number included signatures, but none match this one. Topps announced on September 10, 2026, that the one-of-one autograph card had finally surfaced.
For Hughes, the goal already pushed him into a different stratosphere. He scored the overtime winner against Canada, and the U.S. men won gold for the first time since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice," 46 years after that upset. The win came only days after his mother, Ellen Hughes, won gold as part of the women’s team coaching staff, making it the first time both the men’s and women’s teams brought gold back to the United States.
The aftermath was immediate. Hughes was everywhere after the goal, from Saturday Night Live to The Pat McAfee Show to The Tonight Show.
He also showed up at the World Cup Final, the State of the Union Address, and the Morgan Wallen concert walkout. Whether he was with teammates, with his brother, or on his own, the Golden Goal turned him into the NHL’s biggest star.
Now the card market is giving him another kind of spotlight. Fanatics Collect is auctioning the card, and it had already reached $24,500 with 14 days still left. That number is expected to keep climbing.
A Jack Hughes card crossing into five figures says plenty about where modern hockey memorabilia stands. But the ceiling in this sport still belongs to Wayne Gretzky.
The benchmark remains the 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie card, graded Gem Mint 10 by PSA, which sold in a private sale in 2021 for $3.75 million. Before that, another Gem Mint 10 copy went for $1.29 million at a Heritage Auctions sale in late 2020.
Those are the only two Gem Mint rookie cards for Gretzky in existence, which helps explain why they’ve hit those numbers. Hughes’s card obviously isn’t chasing that kind of territory just yet, but the combination of the moment, the signature, and the fact that this is the only card like it has created real heat. A six-figure finish now feels like the floor.
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