Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2022
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/1/2022
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 Andre Dupont to score the Philadelphia Flyers 43rd playoff goal of the season, in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals vs the Boston Bruins, at Boston Garden, on May 9, 1974. Assisted by HOFer Bobby Clarke and Rick MacLeish, it was the Trois-Rivieres native’s 3rd goal of the playoffs, and 5th of his 14 career playoff goals. An important marker, tying the game late in the third at 19:08, Bobby Clarke would end it in overtime, with the Flyers winning in Boston, 3-2. The Broad Street Bullies would take the series and Stanley Cup in six games. The rubberized Bruins logo and Goal Puck Program label both remain fairly clean, with just light wear to the puck.
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