Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
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.
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 erroneously attributed to having been used by Syl Apps Jr. to score the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 160th goal of the season on January 20, 1974. Apps did not score in that game, a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers at the Spectrum, but he assisted on Jean Pronovost’s shorthanded goal that opened the scoring at 9:26 of the first period. This goal is attribute to Pronovost and was his 19th of the 1973-74 season on the way to his first of four 40-goal campaigns. Pronovost scored 52 goals in 1975-76 and 316 of his 391 NHL goals for the Penguins. Sporting a rubberized Penguins logo on the front and a program label on the reverse, the puck remains in excellent condition with light surface wear. The Rangers logo presents beautifully with a black stick mark at the top left and some toning to the program label on the reverse.
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