Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2019
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 Lowell McDonald to score the Pittsburgh Penguins 219th goal of the season vs the Minnesota North Stars, on March 27th 1974, with the goal his second of three in the game, for a natural hat trick. Assisted by Syl Apps and Nick Beverley, it was McDonald`s 38th goal of the season, and 112th of his 180 career goals. His second goal of the game, it came early in the third period, with the Pens now trailing 3-2. McDonald would add a third goal to tie things up at 3 apiece, and despite outshooting the Stars 38 to 23, the score would finish 3-3. The Penguins rubberized logo and Goal Puck Program label both remain fairly clean, with just a bit of toning to the Pens logo.
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