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May 26

Written by: Bekz
5/26/2010 2:43 PM 

MONTREAL -- The hockey sweater worn during one of Canada's greatest sporting moments is on the auction block.

Paul Henderson wore the scuffed-up, stick-marked jersey when he buried the winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series against the former Soviet Union.

It was the goal that brought to its feet an entire country; classrooms and boardrooms had been frozen while people watched the dying moments of the historic encounter.

The president of a Montreal-area auction house says Henderson's jersey could be the most valuable piece of hockey memorabilia of all time.

Classic Auctions president Marc Juteau expects the heavy-knit artifact to fetch more than a Bobby Orr rookie sweater that was recently auctioned off for nearly $200,000.

 

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