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 Dennis Hull to score the Chicago Black Hawks' 101st goal of the season vs the Vancouver Canucks, on Dec 26, 1973, at Chicago Stadium. Assisted by Pit Martin and Jim Pappin, it was Hull's 13th goal of the season and 184th of his career, with a total of 303 career goals scored. The second goal of the match at 6:48 of the first to put the Hawks up by two, Hull added an assist in the second for a two point night, with Chicago defeating the Canucks 6-2 at home. The rubberized Black Hawks logo is clean, with the Goal Puck Program label showing a few marks. There is also a large chip along the side.
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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