Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Spring 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/18/2019
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 rookie center Tom Lysiak to score the Atlanta Flames 29th goal of the season vs the Philadelphia Flyers, at The Spectrum, on November 3, 1973. Assisted by Randy Manery and Larry Romanchych, it was the High Prairie native’s 3rd goal of the season, and 3rd of his 292 career goals. Netted early in the third on the power play, the marker was his second of the contest, and it would serve as the game winner, with the Flames slipping past the Bullies 2-1 despite being heavily outshot. Lysiak would complete his inaugural season with 64 points scored including 19 goals, in 77 games. The Flyers rubberized logo remains clean, with just a single blemish to the Goal Puck Program label. There is also a small nick along an edge facing the Flyers’ logo.
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