TORONTO (AP) – An NHL jersey once worn by Hall of Fame defenseman Eddie Shore has sold for US$119,500.
Shore’s Boston Bruins No. 2 sweater was sold to an anonymous collector from New York on Saturday night.
Previous owner Scott Johnston had planned to frame the jersey and hang it up before he found out how much it was worth. He had hoped to fetch around $100,000 for the jersey once worn by Shore, a four-time winner of the NHL’s most valuable player award.
The jersey belonged to Johnston’s grandfather, Byron Johnston, who played for the Boston Bruin Cubs in the defunct Can-Am Hockey League in the 1930s.
In those days, the NHL club passed its used jerseys on for the minor league team to wear. Byron Johnston got the shirt Shore had worn until 1931. Heritage Auctions is taking online pre-bids for the jersey until Friday night, with live bidding set for Saturday.
Shore was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947, the same year the Bruins retired his number.
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