This home white knit gamer by Maska was last worn by Vincent Damphousse circa 1986 while a rookie as he began his NHL career. Damphousse was the Maple Leaf’s 1st round selection in the 1986 NHL entry draft where he was selected 6th overall. He would enjoy an 18-year NHL career that saw him tally 432 goals and 1205 points. He spent his first 5 seasons in Toronto, 1 year in Edmonton and then 7 years with Montreal and 6 more with the San Jose Sharks. In his first season with Les Habitants, Damphousse won the only Stanley Cup championship of his career. 

Removed from the right breast of this gamer is the 150th Toronto patch which originally dates this jersey to the 1983-84 campaign. Longtime Maple Leafs winger John Anderson was this jerseys original bearer. He played 8 seasons for the Maple Leafs spanning 1977 thru 1985 and was one of the teams leading scorers. While with Toronto, Anderson racked up 4 consecutive 30-goal campaigns including a career high 37 while wearing this sweater in 1983-84.

The game wear is solid consisting of stick marks, board burns, board paint transfer, un-repaired burn holes, fine inner pilling and some great team-sewn repair work, about 10 in all. It was commonplace for the frugal Maple Leafs organization to recycle their gamers in the 1980’s and thus was the case with this important rookie jersey.