Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction February 2018
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2018
Each puck originally distributed by Hockey Diversified for the 1972-74 NHL Goal Puck Program 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. These particular pucks were used by Rick Smith and Ivan Boldirev to score the California Golden Seals 38th goal of the 1972-73 season, and 39th goal of the 1973-74 season respectively. The Smith goal occurred in a 7-2 loss to the Rangers at MSG on Nov 11th, while the Boldirev goal puck (assisted on by Walt McKechnie and Joey Johnston) was used to score one of the Seals 3 goals in a 6-3 loss to Minnesota on the road on Nov 24th.
Regarding condition, the rubberized Rangers logo on the Smith puck exhibits some dark staining, while the Goal Puck Program label remains fairly clean with a few dark marks. The rubberized North Stars logo on the Boldirev example includes some dark staining, with the Goal Puck Program label dark and discoloured.
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.
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