Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Winter 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2023
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.
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 HOFer Bobby Clark to score the Philadelphia Flyers’ 142nd goal of the 1972-73 season, vs the Chicago Blackhawks, at Chicago Stadium, on January 13th, 1972. His 20th goal of the season and 97th of his 358 career markers, the goal would tie the game and be the 2nd of three Flyers goals on the night in a 3-2 win over the Windy City club. Scored at 8:23 of the 3rd period and assisted by Bill Flett and Simon Nolet, the goal would be the first of two points on the night by Clarke. Sporting a rubberized Blackhawks logo on the front and a program label on the reverse, the puck shows surface wear along with a large chunk taking out of the reverse side and a small cut at the top edge on the front. Both the puck and program label show significant darkening with the program label as showing a 1-inch tear.
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