dang, that was a jersey collection, jeffshly!jeffshly wrote:Well, it took me about ten years to get around to doing it, but I did it. This thread was what pushed me over the edge (don't know if that's a good thing or not). Lots of photos here that can be used for comparison purposes between years, brands, and models of jerseys. http://jeffshly.weebly.com/
We last bought new 10 years ago when my wife bought for my birthday from HoH a white Malkin in advance of his first game. Even then, we were in replica price range but they did full sewn nameplate/number while a Reebok replica 87 I was given by a coworker had the fake sewn panels. But I couldn't be choosers since it was a gift!
The first game I took my wife to 19 years ago (March 1997!) I bought 3 jerseys that weekend - two from the team store at the arena - a black authentic Francis ($150 - CCM), and the Lemieux 3rd albeit replica ($140). I gave that Lemieux to my sister, who later got Mario to sign it for her in Tampa about 10 years back. Kind of wish I had kept that one... Somewhere downtown the next day we bought a home white starter authenic 17 Sandstrom at half price, 125, on account of him having been traded about 6 weeks earlier. That one became our random autograph jersey. Almost had the Francis one signed -- but he stopped signing the person next to my wife in the parking lot later that month and we never got back up before he was gone. When the skating penguin came back, we bought a Straka jersey from the team.
Did pick up on ebay jerseys over the years, including a home white Lalime authentic CCM (damn that 56 is huge) that someone sold because it had a ketchup stain on the logo. One wash and it came out. A whopping $30 spent. And I don't think I've worn that one to a game. Others from ebay (all replica I believe) have found to be our game material - that mid-90s 3rd in Barnaby (Koho), a questionable vintage 90-92 esque Stevens, Maska on the tag, but I bought circa 2000. No patches. Hell, looking through the closet, I forgot about the authentic Starter white Jagr (A). Another 56-R. Somewhere there is a white Lemieux (1997) in the closet but it's still folded in a sealed bag. Pretty sure that one was replica and not authentic though.
I'd seriously thought about getting a fresh jersey, either Kessel or Kuhnhackl, but up to $200 for replica and $400 for authentic are a little too steep for my pocketbook right now. But HoH would be my choice to deal with again should we get to that point, as I trust their work. This would be the time, with the Cup patch and all....
