Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction September 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/24/2024
A product of the Western Hockey League who played with a trio of teams including the Winnipeg Warriors, Kelowna Wings and Spokane Chiefs, Mick Vukota would go undrafted and sign as a free agent with the New York Islanders in March of 1987. Going on to play a total of ten (10) seasons in the National Hockey League with the Islanders as well as the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens to the tune of 573 games in the league, Vukota would rack up a total of 2071 penalty minutes over that time, averaging a career mark of 3.61 per contest. Offered here, we present this Islanders jersey worn by Vukota. An Ultrafil material construction offering made by CCM, a brand label that displays a size "XL" designation is affixed to the inner collar while a CCM logo patch is sewn on over the reverse hem. Decorated over the front of the jersey with a familiar Islanders team crest in layered tackle twill and sporting pro on-ice elements including reinforced elbows and a fight strap on the interior, the sleeves and verso have been accented with Vukota's number "38" in dial layer white-over-orange tackle twill numerals. Having had "Vokuta" spelt out in single layer white twill letters across the affixed airknit material nameplate, the jersey is a bit of an oddity in the sense that it appears to differ from most Islander jerseys with the CCM patch hem that we have handled as there is no numerical size and no born-on date tag. Additionally, the presence of the air-knit nameplate leads us to believe that this could have been an older stock jersey that was quickly made up for Vokota during the early days of his NHL career in 1987-88 and it seems as though the fight strap could have been added by the Islanders training staff as well when comparing it with other examples. All these things contribute to the reason as to why it has been listed as just "worn" instead of "game-worn".
Exhibiting good wear via stick marks over the front, reverse and both sleeves, board burns/slash marks are present over the front as well while a couple of blue coloured paint transfers appear over the reverse as well.
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