**Lundqvist Game-Used Signed Stick!!!**

[Stevini18]

Rewind to last May, when I saw this on ebay (very poorly listed). I could tell the auto was authentic, and the one photo the guy had in the auction looked like the stick had a fair amount of use. I knew it was a good starting bid price, and that it would be an awesome addition to my Henrik card collection.

My birthday was coming up in like 2 weeks, so I had the brilliant idea to put it on my "wish list" for gifts. Well, my sister and girlfriend chipped in and were the only bidders. Final price - the starting bid of $125. I actually was going down to Long Island (where the seller was located) the next week for a wedding, so we picked the stick up in person and saved on shipping.

The story goes that the guy who was selling's son won the stick in a school raffle. Apparently one of the parents worked at MSG and donated a few items for the raffle, including the Lundy stick and a Knicks signed basketball. Since the kid was a hockey fan, he took the Lundy stick when he won - and since they were Islanders fans, they threw it on ebay.

It has WAY too much wear to be only game-used, so I'm thinking either solely practice-used, or game-then-practice-used. I have looked over tons of pictures to try and exact match even one mark on it, and I can't seem to do it. If anyone has resources and time, I will give them $50 for an exact photomatch (not just model and taping job - I've got that - I need an EXACT match with distinguishing marks).

If anyone can decode the date stamp on the stick for me, that would be awesome too.

By my research, it was used in either 09-10 or 10-11.

Sorry it took me 8 months to take pics of it...lol

Enjoy the show!!!

For some reason, my photo rotations in Bucket aren't maintaining here...
Photobucket link for the stick


-Steve



Click the pics for high res!

 

[AndroSFL]

Very cool add to your collection. I am guessing he goes through a ton of sticks facing 30+ shots per night.

 

[SkyFire47]

Very awesome piece. Wish I had come across it at that price.

 

[MGiuseffi1969]

Cool piece Steve! Congrats on picking it up!!!

 

[bonnev659]

wow great find for that price

congrats

 

[cathaytrader]

Incredible piece of game used. Nice job picking that up.
I'm going to be going after the stick he uses to win the Stanley Cup this year;-)

 

[wildfan1833]

Wow great find and price

 

[gratzi]

Great pickup! I love GU sticks.

 

[BillInDallas]

I never noticed him with such a unique paddle design. Congrats on the great gift!

 

[Mr7ucky]

Nice Stick!

From what I can figure out after a few moments looking at it. The markings '09-10-14--01' help to narrow down the search to Oct 14 2009. This is because no hockey is played in Sept '09', and to my knowledge 14 doesn't exist as a month or year...yet.

Low and behold the Rangers did play a game on that exact day, and Lundqvist was in net! I would post a link to the game recap but this is my first post and I'm not allowed to do that yet. It's really not that hard to get on NHL.com though.

The photos of the game on NHL.com match the brand, style, tape job, and even the LUNDQVIST stamp on the stick. Now seeing as I'm not a photo wizard and enlarging / enhancing those photos would be impossible (read: labour intensive) I can't 100% confirm. Seeing as there are no other leads so far I would at a minimum say this is your new front runner.

Now the photos from this game do show the stick after the game when Lundqvist is skating around because he was the 1st star, and it doesn't look as beat up as the photos you are sharing here. Which probably means it was used in practices afterwards like you suggested.

Hopefully this helps your search (if you still needed it)