This fresh to the hobby example is part of an exciting collection of newly discovered game worn hockey jerseys that were originally sourced from “New England”. This collection is being offered to the hobby for the very first time via the Spring 2015 Auction, exclusively at GAMEWORNAUCTIONS.NET.
This home white mesh and knit gamer by Good Sports was worn by Dave Keon during the 1980-81 NHL season. Keon’s legendary Hall of Fame career spanned 22 seasons, the first 15 being spent with the Toronto Maple Leafs. While with the Leafs he served as their longtime Team Captain and became recognized as one of the NHL’s elite players. Keon won 4 Stanley Cups with Toronto and left the Maple Leafs in 1975 as their career-scoring leader. Dave then spent 4 years in the WHA, where he briefly played for the Fighting Saints and Racers before spending parts of 3 seasons with the New England Whalers. When the NHL expanded in 1979-80, following the WHA’s collapse, Keon went with his Whalers teammates to Hartford where he spent the final 3 years of his career, playing until he was 42 years of age.
Keon captured the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s Rookie of the year in 1961, won 2 Lady Byng’s for the combination of sportsmanship and high ability, was the back to back recipient of the Paul Daneau Trophy as the WHA’s most gentlemanly player and won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1967 as the playoff MVP during what was the Leafs last Stanley Cup title. Dave was twice a 2nd team NHL All Star and played in 8 NHL All Star games.
Sewn into the collar of this vintage gamer are the manufacturers, wash, size and year tagging. The game wear on this size 48 sweater is solid and consists of numerous stick and slash marks, some board burns, sweat stains and pilling both inside and out. Sewn to the inside back player numbers is the original double garter style fight strap. Shown above are some beautiful photo matches of Keon wearing this exact jersey during the 1980-81 season. Also shown above are some amazing video highlights of Keon in action while wearing this exact jersey on home ice during the 1980-81 season. These highlights will be included with your purchase. This exciting jersey is fresh to the hobby, sports solid game use and is accompanied by multiple photo matches and an awesome video match and was worn by this Hall of Famer as he struck for a very respectable 47-point effort at 41-years of age, choice!
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