The Elmer Lach Auction - October 2006
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/24/2006
Similar jersey here of the very short-lived style donned by Bruin players for the last regular season game of the ‘72-73 season and the first two games of their quarter-final series against the Rangers. Mostly mesh jersey has gold knit shoulders, neckline and hem, with screened-on logo, numbers and stripes. The story goes that after those two opening losses to the Rangers on Garden ice, the Bruins deemed the jerseys unlucky and discarded them. We do have a photo of Bobby Orr wearing a similar jersey and battling New York’s Dale Rolfe, although we can’t see the front of the jersey to confirm the tie-neck style. That style, no fight strap and no tagging is not consistent with other jerseys from this set; we know they were V- necks, although our consignor claims that the jersey was retrieved from the Bruins’ dressing room. Could a special tie-neck style have been produced for Orr? At any rate, size 50 jersey is in excellent condition with slight flaking of the Bruins logo and half a dozen small stains on the front.
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