Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2013
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/5/2013
Amazing piece of Calgary Flames history is Lanny McDonald's game-worn captain's jersey from the 1988-89 Stanley Cup championship season! This white home gamer from Lanny's final NHL campaign displays a hastily-sewn-on C on the breast which was on and off the jersey constantly as a result of the Hall of Fame right winger's shared co-captaincy with Jim Peplinski. Lanny recorded his 1,000th point at the Saddledome with a pair of goals in a 9-5 win over Winnipeg on March 7, 1989. He also joined the NHL's 500-goal club at home two weeks later with his final regular season goal against Mark Fitzpatrick in a 4-1 win over the Islanders. This treasure from Lanny's personal collection retains the Maska Air-Knit flag tag in the neck and measures out to a size 48. CCM logo embroidered on the right rear tail features three white squares with red lettering and outline. Game wear includes red paint transfer above the elbow and high on the back of the right sleeve, a black mark on the left elbow, and sweat stains on the cuffs and front, above and below the Flaming C crest. Comes with Lanny McDonald's signed LOA. There are three small stains on the back of the left sleeve and a very long loose red thread at the back of the knit collar. There is also a boxy outline surrounding Lanny’s retired number 9 on the back that is likely the result of the jersey being framed and probably cleanable.
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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