Hockey great Wayne Gretzky carries the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada on February 12, 2010.
Posted on 04/02/2011 7:11:14 AM PDT by JoeProBono
MONTREAL, - The hockey puck Wayne Gretzky used to score his record-breaking 1,851st NHL goal sold for more than $50,000 in a Montreal-based online auction.
Classic Auctions said the puck from the October 1989 game, which put Gretzky over the 1,850 record set by Gordie Howe, was sold to an anonymous Canadian collector with a high bid of $49,870, bringing the total price to more than $50,000 with a buyer's premium, Postmedia News reported Friday.
Classic Auctions President Marc Juteau said the puck was kept in storage for many years by a retired NHL timekeeper and recently sold to a private collector, who put it up for auction.
Gretzky scored the goal while playing for the Los Angeles Kings in a game against the Edmonton Oilers.
"The milestone moment marks, without a doubt, one of the most unobtainable accomplishments in the history of the game," the auction company stated prior to the sale. It said Gretzky "would go on to post an incredible total of 2,857 regular season points, a feat which will never be surpassed."
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky carries the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada on February 12, 2010.
The 1,851 was the # of points, not goals, at the time.
Even the “Great One” could not score 90+ goals a season...
I believe he scored 105 in one season back in the 80’s. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
While at Edmonton he scored 87 goals in 1983-84, and 92 in 81-82.
He had 150+ points in 8 years including 3 years over 200 plus 2 at 183 and 196.
http://www.gretzky.com/hockey/career_stats.php
Wish he could have played under the current rules but his games might have been ‘cricket scores.’
Unfortunately, yes, you're wrong. The most he ever scored in a season was 92, which is still extraordinary and a record not likely to be broken any time soon in today's lock-and-trap NHL.
He did score over 200 points in a season four times, though, which to me is even more remarkable.
I stand corrected. Check and see if Bobby Hull scored the 105 in a season. I’m pretty sure that someone put that many in the net in a season.
Mario Lemieux will to me always show as a better player than Gretzky. Lemieux could have had many, many for goals for himself. Instead he passed off shots he could have taken himself in favor of even betters shot available to a team mate.
When Lemieux did take a shot, it was art. As he would skate around the net, the goalie would guard the approach side of the net until Lemieux passed behind it. Just as the goalie would start to shift to the other side of the net, Lemieux would take his shot, bouncing the puck off the back of the goalies leg and the puck would end up in the net.
When Lemieux and Yamir Yager played together, Lemieux would send so many shots to Yager, shots Lemieux could have just as well taken.
If Lemieux was after the all time goal record, he could have had it.
how did the “time Keeper “ get to keep that puck?
By points, aren’t we also including assists, which Lemeux would have been credited, even by passing it off to the actual goal scorer?
He scored the “go ahead” goal # 803 while with the kings in 1993. I was at the game. quite a sight. Game was stopped, red carpet rolled out....I wonder what the program from that game is worth.
During the 1984-85 season and playoffs Kurri scored 90 goals, many of them from passes made by Gretzky.
Gretzky's points total included a ton of assists. Wayne could pass the puck and did. His numbers show it.
Never did. Gretzky’s 92 is the record and I don’t see it being broken for a long, long time.
Despite playing in 572 fewer games than Gretzky, Lemieux holds the record for the highest career points-per-game average (2.005) and the highest career goals-per-game average (.823). While the title of “greatest” player is debatable, the title of “most productive” player is not.
Gretzky dominated in an era when it was far easier to score goals. And when the stats are adjusted to reflect the changing league conditions, Lemieux’s numbers are superior. If not for Lemieux’s troubled health, there would be no debate. He battled back injuries and cancer during his career.
On December 31, 1988, Lemieux became the first (and only) player in NHL history to score a goal in every possible game situation in the same game. Lemieux netted an even strength goal, scored on the power play, scored shorthanded, converted on a penalty shot, and added an empty netter to cap off a five goal, eight point performance.
That was the beauty of watching Lemieux. He was exceptionally talented, more so in my opinion that Gretzky. Watching Lemieux play was like watching art on ice.
Agreed!
Eddie Shore?
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