To everyone here and on Facebook, Twitter, and Hockey Inside Out, I’d like to say thank you so much for your well-wishes on our upcoming move to Montreal. It’s a big chapter about to begin for Luci and I. I even saw the little wooden bastard Gaston shed a tear, but I think it was [...]

Very soon it’ll be throw everything into storage, close up shop, hop into the car with Luci, Gaston, and maybe Teesha the cat, and drive 2300 miles to Montreal, where I’ll be working at Classic Auctions, which many of you know is the biggest and best historical hockey auction house on the planet. This gig [...]

From the days of the National Hockey Association, NHA – my spoons, that I don’t eat chocolate ice cream or tap out a tune on my leg with. All they do is sit in my cabinet and look nice. A set of four of these was sold at Classic Auctions several years ago. The NHA [...]

I pray no one thinks I’m disrespecting the Rocket here. It’s regarding the neon sign outside Rocket’s pub, Tavern 9, the watering hole he owned for several years beginning in the late ’50s. Originally it had the word “Taverne” from top to bottom, and crossed hockey sticks below his name, but in one particular photo [...]

Ron Green in Orillia sends along an interesting story from TheStar.com – Hockey Is In Tom Scanlan’s Bones  – about a fellow who bought game-used sticks once owned by the 42 players who scored at least 500 goals in the NHL. The sticks were up for auction last June from Classic Auctions in Montreal. 42 [...]

An amazing piece of history just sold at Classic Auctions for $3540.00. It’s a letter written by Howie Morenz from his hospital bed to his Montreal and Chicago teammate Marty Burke. Morenz had broken his leg in a game against the Hawks on January 28th, 1937, and on March 8th, the great star would unexpectantly pass away. [...]

Classic Auctions has donated photographs from renowned Original Six photographer Alain Brouillard to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Beautiful shots of the Rocket, Bobby Hull, Terry Sawchuk and others are included. The link, sent over by Christopher (thanks Chris) can be seen here - Hall’s Summer Treat.

This little card is an ad for a dinner and auction sponsored by Classic Auctions in February of 2008 in support of the Jean Beliveau Foundation, which helps disabled children throughout the province of Quebec. It goes without saying just how much I admire Mr. Beliveau and all he is and does, but today’s post is strictly about [...]

The latest auction from http://www.classicauctions.net/ closed Tuesday night and just so you know, Yvan Cournoyer’s dentures, stuck at $250 for the longest time, eventually sold for $1412.00 when the final hammer came down. Now you may never get another chance. And it would have made such an excellent Christmas present.

Classic Auctions is in full swing http://www.classicauctions.net/ and as usual, my drool is soaking the keyboard as there’s just way too many things that I’d like to have but won’t because it seems God doesn’t want me to win the lottery. Maurice Richard’s game-used stick when he scored his 321st goal during the 1950-51 season (lot 62) is something I [...]