Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2013
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/5/2013
Shockingly traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to Colorado on December 29, 1979, Lanny McDonald was dealt once again on November 25, 1981, this time from the Rockies to the Calgary Flames along with a draft pick in return for Don Lever and Bob MacMillan. Offered from Lanny's personal collection is what is most likely his first Flames game-worn jersey from the 1981-82 season with the #9 he would ultimately see retired by the team at the end of his Hall of Fame career. This red mesh affair with Sandow SK tagging in the neck and logo on the red and white bands heat-screened around the tails displays a nameplate removal. Denis Cyr wore #9 for the Flames in 1980-81 and part of the following season before switching to #12, which had been worn by Lever. Lanny totaled 40 goals and 82 points overall in 1981-82, including 34 goals and 67 points in 55 games with the Flames. The white and yellow bands on the sleeves are also heat-screened vinyl, which has dried up somewhat and displays cracks, as do the red and white bands on the yellow mesh hem. The Flaming C crest is sewn-on triple twill and the numbers on the back and sleeves and surname letters on the nameplate are all sewn-on double twill. Best game wear is a
4-inch-long black slash mark on the right rear tail. There is pinkish red color bleeding in the white stripe of the red, yellow and white knit collar. Comes with Lanny McDonald's signed LOA.
The Lanny McDonald Collection
Were the moustache the measure of the man, Lanny McDonald would rule the world. The Hall of Fame right winger’s bushy red trademark aside, Lanny is beloved in Toronto, fondly remembered in Colorado, and an absolute icon in Calgary and his home province of Alberta.
Lanny and center Darryl Sittler teamed up to give the 1970s Maple Leafs a Hall of Fame tandem up front. McDonald’s overtime goal against the New York Islanders in Game 7 of the 1978 quarter-final replays constantly in the minds of long-suffering Leafs fans. Shockingly traded by Punch Imlach to the Colorado Rockies in late December 1979, Lanny was traded again just under two years later, this time back home to his native Alberta. Ontario’s loss was the Calgary Flames’ gain and McDonald scored an astounding 66 goals in 1982-83.
Lanny played in four NHL All-Star Games and represented his country at the 1976 Canada Cup, setting up Sittler’s historic overtime goal. And boy, did he ever cap his legendary career in style. Lanny’s last NHL regular season goal was the 500th of his career, and the last goal he ever scored came in Game 6 of the 1989 Stanley Cup final. He beat fellow Hall-of-Famer Patrick Roy to put Calgary ahead for good, sending the Flames on to a Cup-clinching 4-2 win as Lanny and his teammates became the only visiting team to defeat the Canadiens and have Lord Stanley’s prized chalice presented to them on Montreal Forum ice.
Classic Auctions is honored to offer these amazing items from Lanny McDonald’s personal collection. Featured are a number of Lanny’s Flames game-worn jerseys, including his captain’s gamer from his final season. Lanny’s 1979 NHL Challenge Cup game-worn jersey is here as well along with a big assortment of the team-signed sticks he collected from various NHL All-Star Games and more items from both his playing days and his off-ice hockey career with the Flames and Hockey Canada, where he notably served as the general manager of Team Canada’s 2001 world championships squad.
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