Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction June 2018
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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, 1972-1973 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 Al McDonough to score the Pittsburgh Penguins 66th goal of the season vs Atlanta, on Nov 18th 1972. Assisted by Rick Kessell and Duane Rupp, it was McDonough’s third goal of the game and 8th of the season, and 20th of his 73 career goals. Securing the rarely-seen natural hat trick on the night with the even-strength marker at 14:50 of the first, The Pens would go on to dominate the Flames, with a 6-1 victory in front of their home town crowd. Regarding condition, the rubberized Penguins logo has a few light areas along the left-side border, while the Goal Puck Program label remains clean. A few edge gouges are also present, facing the GPP label. It should also be noted that all three pucks from McDonough’s aforementioned hat trick are available within this auction.
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