Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction - March 2007
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/27/2007
Thought-provoking and significant piece of hockey history has fancy engraving on the back that reads “E. Geroux – Champions M.A.H.L. 1904-05” and which leads us to the story of the Rat Portage Thistles. Eddie Geroux and his teammates, who included HOFers Si Griffis, Tommy Phillips and Billy McGimsie, earned the right, with their Manitoba Hockey League title, to challenge the Ottawa Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup. Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) won the best-of-three opener 9-2 but Ottawa reportedly used a flooded rink and rough/dirty tactics to slow the Thistles, win the next two games and retain their Stanley Cup title. Geroux and the Thistles kept trying though and Kenora became the smallest town to win a Cup title two years later! Marvelous medal is 1 1/2” in diameter and stamped “10K.”
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