Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Spring 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/16/2020
The No. 1 pick in the 2016 NHL Draft, Auston Matthews, has scored 158 goals through his first 282 regular season games with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He scored 40 of these goals in his rookie season, in which he won the Calder Memorial Trophy, which is awarded to "the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the NHL".
The Bauer Nexus 1N gloves are in solid blue with white wrist cuffs and have "Matthews" embroidered over each wrist guard. Additional embroidered details include "Bauer" on both wrist cuffs and "Nexus 1N" over each thumb guard. The back of each wrist guard have screened "Bauer" lettering and the size "14"-36cm" is screened on the inside of the gloves. The number "34" is handwritten on each palm with an emoji face (with a tongue out) drawn just above on the wrist guard. Both gloves exhibit nice game wear to the palms with a number of additional game marks on the gloves. The original Maple Leafs code bar price tag is included and affixed to a small cardboard piece.
The gloves are photo-matched to Getty Images from February 21st 2017 (#643951840 and #643876856), March 7th 2017 (#649406538) and March 9th (#652091760 & #652090570) to the exact wear pattern to the "Bauer" lettering on the left glove’s interior wrist guard, the emoji is also visible on these images and the handwritten "34" on the palm also shows correct placement.
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