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After a one-year flirtation with the World Hockey Association (WHA), Wayne Gretzky landed with the Edmonton Oilers in 1979 where he quickly began establishing scoring records at a dizzying pace and led his team to four Stanley Cup championships. Starting with his second year with Edmonton, he would put up scoring totals of 164, 212, 196, 205, 208, 215 and 183, a seven year span unmatched and largely unimagined. Presented here is one of a group of nine Gretzky game pucks, dating from the transcendent early years of Gretzky’s career, acquired by John Hamilton directly from Glen Sather, President and GM of the Edmonton Oilers. Each puck was utilized to achieve a different milestone or record in Gretzky’s then young career.
It's a pretty good barometer of the kind of extraordinary impact Wayne Gretzky had on the National Hockey League after he landed with the Edmonton Oilers in 1979 by noting that one night after he reached a milestone assist in a game against Quebec, he followed it up the very next night by scoring his 100th point of the season, the fastest that anybody had ever reached such dizzying heights, en route to setting the season total points record at 205. That's a suitably exclusive club for "The Great one": one. And he's done it four time.
This puck then marks that historic moment, in this instance the very puck used in the Dec. 18, 1983 game against the Winnipeg Jets when he scored Point No. 100. The puck shows game use and has been wrapped with trainer's tape that was affixed following the contest to include notations of game, time, place, etc. The artifact is in fine condition and without issue, with the hand writing by the trainer still easily legible. Includes a 3-by- 1/2-inch plastic nameplate with gold finish engraved with the date, score and description.
Includes a copy of a Letter of Authenticity signed by Glen Sather, President and GM of the Edmonton Oilers, along with a Letter of Provenance from the Newport Sports Museum Collection.