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A game-issued woody hockey instrumentality said to person belonged to Bill Barilko, who scored the overtime victor to unafraid Toronto Maple Leafs' Stanley Cup successful 1951, was sold astatine auction for $60,000 connected Sunday, good supra the estimation of $3,000 to $5,000.
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· Posted: Jun 23, 2025 3:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago
A game-issued hockey instrumentality owned and signed by Toronto Maple Leaf legend Bill Barilko — who scored the Stanley Cup-winning overtime extremity successful 1951 — has sold for $60,000 astatine auction.
Miller and Miller Auctions, based retired of New Hamburg, Ont., sold the "game-issued" woody stick from the 1950-51 play connected Sunday.
The auction location had enactment an estimation of betwixt $3,000 and $5,000 connected the stick. But Benjamin Pernfuss, consignment manager successful the sports class astatine Miller and Miller, said earlier the auction that however overmuch the uncommon point would spell for was unclear.
"There's not a batch of his memorabilia retired there, and the instrumentality was owned by Barilko and signed by him arsenic well. So it's a important portion and a uncommon point successful hockey history," Pernfuss said earlier the auction.
On Monday, Pernfuss said seeing the instrumentality spell for $60,000 "just shows the value of owning a portion of Toronto Maple Leafs history."
"Bill Barilko is one of those names that benignant of stands unsocial connected the apical of Toronto Maple Leafs past and past of hockey successful Canada," Pernfuss said.
Pernfuss was not capable to stock who bought the instrumentality oregon wherever it's going next.
Plane clang a tragic extremity to Cup hero's life
Barilko, calved successful Timmins, Ont., played 252 games successful the NHL, spending his five seasons with Toronto. The defenceman's aggression connected the crystal earned him the nickname Bashin' Bill.
For many, his Game 5 extremity against the Montreal Canadiens connected April 21, 1951, is 1 of hockey's astir celebrated. It helped captured the Maple Leafs' 4th Cup successful 5 years.
But it was besides Barilko's past goal.
In August the aforesaid year, astatine property 24, helium was connected a sportfishing travel to James Bay erstwhile the level helium was successful went down. The Leafs didn't triumph different Cup until 1962. Six weeks later, the clang tract and Barilko's assemblage were located.
His communicative inspired the Tragically Hip song Fifty-Mission Cap.
Stick has names of different celebrated players
The instrumentality is taped for crippled usage successful a mode that matches Barilko's style, and puck marks and wear successful the little hand-grip area indicate the instrumentality was apt utilized successful a game, though Miller and Miller Auctions is incapable to corroborate that.
The instrumentality was stamped "5" near the top, which indicated it was issued to Barilko as it was his fig that season, the auction location says.
It's besides stamped with Love & Bennett, which astatine the clip supplied hockey sticks to the Maple Leafs.
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The instrumentality was purportedly a acquisition to the proprietor of a bluish Ontario cottage who hosted Leaf players successful the off-season aft their Stanley Cup win, Miller and Miller Auctions said on its website.
Pernfuss said the instrumentality includes different "identifiable" signatures, including: Turk Broda, Ted Kennedy, Joe Klukay, Cal Gardner, Fleming Mackell, Ray Timgren, Howie Meeker, Harry Watson, Bill Juzda, Sid Smith, Max Bentley, Al Rollins and Tod Sloan, who were each connected the 1951 team.
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