Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
From the Hockey Diversified Inc. Goal Puck Program we have a puck used by Bill Fairbairn to score the New York Rangers' 217th goal of the season vs the NY Islanders, on Feb 7, 1973, at MSG. Assisted by Brad Park and Walt Tkaczuk, it was Fairbairn's 22nd goal of the season and 74th of his career, with a total of 162 career goals scored. Netted at 17:47 of the third, it was the Blueshirts' fifth goal of the game and second point for Fairbairn, with the Islanders losing to their crosstown rivals 6-0. Ed Giacomin earned the shutout. The rubberized Rangers logo and the Goal Puck Program label are both clean, with just light wear to the puck.
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. 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.
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