Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/5/2019
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 Jim Pappin to score the Chicago Black Hawks 10th playoff goal of the season, in the fifth and final game of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs vs the Los Angeles Kings, at Chicago Stadium, on April 16, 1974. Unassisted, it was the Sudbury native’s 2nd goal of the playoffs, and 32nd of his 33 career playoff goals. The only goal of the contest and the game winner with Esposito earning the shutout, the Hawks would finish off the Kings on this evening, losing only a single contest in the series while giving up a mere 8 goals. The rubberized Black Hawks logo and Goal Puck Program label both remain clean, with just a small indentation within the team logo side and a small edge gouge on the GPP label side.
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