Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2020
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In 1972 founders of a company named Hockey Diversified Inc. envisioned that each puck shot into the net to produce an official goal scored in an NHL hockey game would develop a degree of intrinsic collector value for hockey fans everywhere. The founders took this idea to the NHL and procured the rights to all such NHL pucks during regular season and playoff games for a period of five years. Pucks shot into the net for a goal were collected by the referees, given to the time keepers to label and then shipped to Hockey Diversified to further label with scoring details. The pucks were then marketed to the public by Hockey Diversified Inc. Unfortunately this idea was ahead of its time and pucks sold poorly. The program lasted only two seasons, 1972-73 and 1973-74. Hockey Diversified Inc. dissolved shortly thereafter. Classic Auctions is honored to have been chosen by an original founder of Hockey Diversified to sell, at upcoming auctions, residual, unsold pucks from that “NHL Registered Goal Puck” collection.
Each puck originally distributed by Hockey Diversified could be obtained by mail with the buyer’s choice of team and possibly player. A label was affixed to each puck listing the scorer, team and date, along with a code that divulged which team-goal said puck accounted for. This particular puck was used by Pit Martin to score the Chicago Black Hawks 60th goal of the playoffs, in the sixth and final game of the 1973 Stanley Cup finals, vs the Montreal Canadiens, at Chicago Stadium, on May 10, 1973. Assisted by Dennis Hull, it was Martin’s 10th playoff goal of the season and 23rd playoff goal of his career, with a total of 27 career playoff goals scored. The third goal of a hat trick, scored on the power play at 17:05 of the third, the marker tied the game at 4-4, with Cournoyer and Tardif adding goals to seal the deal and allow the Habs to claim their second Stanley Cup championship of the decade. The rubberized Black Hawks logo remains clean, with a blemish to the Goal Puck Program label.
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