Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
Playing his junior hockey with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League and helping the club to a Memorial Cup championship in 1982, Mike Hough would be selected 181st overall the Quebec Nordiques at the 1982 NHL Entry Draft and go on to play a total of 707 games in the National Hockey League with the likes of Quebec, Florida and New York before retiring in 1999. Serving as Quebec's captain during the 1991-92 season, offered here is this Nordiques jersey worn by Hough circa 1985. A Maska made offering with the remains of a brand label affixed to the inner collar along with a size "56" label added to the shoulder seam, a Maska logo is embroidered into the reverse hem. Decorated over the front of the jersey with a Nordiques team crest in layered tackle twill that also features embroidered details, the all-important Rendez-Vous '87 patch, added to jerseys by the Nordiques in the second half of the 1985-86 season, appears over the right sleeve. Called up from AHL Fredricton for a pair of games in the 1985 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Philadelphia Flyers, research shows that Hough played those two (2) games wearing number "36" and likely wore the number during the 1985 pre-season/training camp as well, with the jersey used during that likely retained from the playoff set the previous year and then prepared for Hough's use during the second half of regular season with the patch incase of a call up. Hough then wore number "31" during the 1986-87 pre-season/training camp as well as the first game of the regular season before switching to his more known number "18" for the rest of his Quebec tenure. Styled over the sleeves and verso with Hough's number "36" in single layer blue vinyl numbers, "Hough" is spelt out in matching style letters across the affixed matching nameplate at the top of the reverse. Also displaying blue vinyl Fleur-de-lis across the lower front and reverse plus both shoulders, the vinyl details throughout display with heavy cracking/flaking, something that is common with Nordiques jerseys of this era. Displaying just light game-wear via a few light marks throughout the body and sleeves as well as a few light spot stains/marks and pilling at both elbows on the interior, the jersey retains its original ribbon style fight strap as well.
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