Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Spring 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/2/2023
Finishing the regular season with a record of 44-23-15, the Detroit Red Wings would take down the Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars and Washington Capitals during the playoffs to claim the franchise’s 9th Stanley Cup Championship. Offered here, is this June 18th, 1998 Detroit Free Press front page printing plate that has been signed by approx. 36 members of that year 1998 Stanley Cup winning Red Wings team. Measuring 24” x 13 ½”, the sheet metal displays a black and white photo of the Red Wings on-ice celebration with the title “Back 2 Back” above along with the paper’s logo. Signed in either black or blue ink, those that have signed the piece include Yzerman, Lidstrom, Bowman (coach), Maltby, Holmstrom, Fedorov, Draper, Osgood, Murphy, Shanahan, Ward, Lapointe, Fetisov, Larionov, Dandenault, Kozlov, Yzerman and others. All the autographs display in good condition and remain completely legible while the plate itself showing some warps and bends as well as a surface that could benefit from a good cleaning with a tape mark at the top edge. A classic Auctions LOA will accompany.
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