Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
Playing his junior hockey as a member of the Seattle Thunderbirds in the Western Hockey League, Matt Rempe would be selected 165th overall by the New York Rangers at the 2020 NHL Entry Draft and made his National Hockey League debut during the 2023-24 season at the Stadium Series against the New York Islanders. Instantly becoming a fan favourite due to his willingness to drop the mitts and insight memories of "Old Time Hockey", offered here is this lot of photo-matched items worn/used by the man dubbed "The Rempire State Building" including a helmet and pair of gloves.
Starting with the helmet, a CCM made offering with a matching visor affixed over the front that was worn by Rempe during the 2023-24 season as a member of the AHL's Hartford Wolf Pack, a CCM logo appears over the front, with an ident seen in the plastic under it from when a full cage was attached during a period in which Rempe was protecting a facial injury. Sporting Hartford decals over both sides and an AHL logo decal over the lower reverse, stickers for Rempe's number "32" have been affixed over the forehead and reverse as well. Remaining in overall good condition with all the padding present on the interior and the strapping harness fully intact, the helmet shows use via numerous scuffs and abrasions throughout. Regarding the photo-match, the helmet is matched to a digital image of Rempe taken during the season that appears on Hartford's social media pages which shows a match to the scrape/scratch to the left of the "3" on the front and to the fold/crease in the middle of the "3" decal on the front.
For the gloves, CCM Pro model examples worn by Matt during his first pre-season/training camp with the Rangers, the gloves appear in New York's familiar red, white and blue colour way while "CCM" is embroidered into both cuffs. Void of any identifiers aside from the "73" that has been penned over each palm in thin blue ink, the gloves show heavy amounts of wear through stick marks, scuffs, abrasions, sweat staining, cuts and rubbing/holes in the palms, the gloves have been photo-matched with Getty Image #1343066280 (September 26th, 2021 vs New York - Rempe's First Pre-Season Game) to the "73" on the palm and long loose white thread near the "CCM Pro" on the underside of the left glove plus small black stick mark on the white edge of the thumb on the right glove.
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