FOR SALE: 1995-96 CCM Pro Authentic Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Teemu Selanne, 3rd / Alt Wild Wing Jersey, Size 56

I recently had the good fortune to happen upon a most rare find. As the title indicates, I now have in my possession a Teemu Selanne Wild Wing Authentic. Now, this is no regular authentic… This one happens to be far rarer than the game / team issued sweaters everyone else has in their collections. Based upon the research I have conducted, and through discussions with the original owner, it seems that my Wild Wing jersey was one of the original prototypes introduced for initial approval by the Ducks organization.   

       While all of the Ducks Wild Wing game issued sweaters have a teal, teal, teal segmented CCM logo on the hem, this one has a black, black, teal segmented CCM logo. In addition, game issued Wild Wing jerseys had a rather triangular-shaped primary logo patch stitched inside of them which said “1995-96 Secondary Jersey” on it. This prototype has the same primary logo patch inside, minus the wording. Obviously, because it had not yet been accepted as a "secondary jersey." The final difference is that my Wild Wing Selanne sweater has no size fly tag in it. However, the jersey does in fact measure to a size 56 as was claimed by the original owner.

       With regard to history, per the original owner, this prototype  jersey (sweater) was purchased by him “locally” (although he did not say where, or from whom). I strongly suspect the jersey was at one time in the possession of the Ducks equipment manager, or some other staff member who eventually found little use for it and subsequently sold it. I have left several e-mails with the Ducks organization in an attempt to validate my findings. However, I have yet to hear from them.

       Now for the news all of you collectors reading this post wanted to hear. I will be posting this sweater for sale in my Web store within the next day or so. Please find a link to my Web store at the top of the right margin, or simply Google goon-gear. There you will find the Wild Wing Selanne listing as well as many others. I will also be posting several pictures of the sweater here in the right margin. If you have any questions, please post a question through the listing, and I will respond promptly.

2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs

2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs

     In a momentary departure from my usual rant against bogus hockey sweaters, I would like to acknowledge that I may have been wrong about a certain NHL coach… In some rather pointed tweets I unleashed regarding my perceived ineptness of New Jersey Devils coach Peter DeBoer, I specifically called into question his previous record with the Florida Panthers, and on that basis wondered how Lou could have possibly made such a foolish choice, especially on the heels of the John MacLean debacle.  It seems that at the very least I will have to rethink my opinion of coach DeBoer, and at worst (for my ego) issue a tweet recanting my previous tweets…

     While a certain level of luck (good or bad) is almost always present for some teams in the NHL playoffs, I feel that there are other forces at work where the Devils are concerned. No, I don’t mean otherworldly; no Devil-Worshiping cult e-mails, please! I mean, I think the Florida Panthers were a far better team than many in the media gave them credit for, and that seven-game series served to prepare the Devils for what was to follow, a date with the high-powered Flyers. I also think that the Flyers thought they had the series with the Devils won as soon as they put skate-blades on the ice for game one. In other words, the Flyers thought that because they defeated the Pens with relative ease, they would dominate the Devils.

     With the Devils now leading the series with the Flyers three games to one, and given it is the second round of the playoffs, I may have to start thinking of the wording I will use in my apology tweet to coach DeBoer. If Coach Pete can get the Devils into the conference finals, I will have to eat crow, and call it a successful season. However, as a life-long Devils fan, I hope New Jersey has a story-book ending that sends Marty out on top with a fourth Stanley Cup! GO DEVILS!  

Are you a REAL NHL fan, or just another bandwagon-jumper…???

Are you a REAL NHL fan, or just another bandwagon-jumper…???

     With the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs fast approaching, hockey sweaters will be flying off of the shelves like never before! Unless you want to be stuck sifting through the already picked-over stock of most stores, or other suppliers, you might want to get a jump on the other fans. With that in mind, here is something to consider…

     The vast majority of people who wait until the last minute to buy the sweaters they are going to be sporting for the playoffs are bandwagon-jumpers, period! So, it is important for TRUE die-hard NHL fans to be distinguishable from the posers. One way you can do that is to NOT buy a cheesy, Asian-sweatshop quality Reebok rag! RBK sweaters are for bandwagon-jumpers and children, PERIOD! Any self-respecting fan worth his or her salt would not be caught dead wearing a pathetic Reebok rag!

     In order for the TRUE, LONG-TIME NHL fans among us to stand out, we must show that we are old-school fans by wearing REAL old-school gear! Not eBay counterfeits, not RBK rags, but REAL sweaters that were actually made back in the day. I’m talking HIGH QUALITY stuff! If you are a TRUE fan who dislikes being mistaken for a bandwagon-jumper, then do yourself a HUGE favor and visit my online store at, http://webstore.com/~goongear. There you will find all your heart desires in the way of True old-school NHL sweaters. I sell only out of production, hard to find gear that die-hard fans and collector’s want! And, there is something for every budget! CCM, KOHO, Pro Player, Starter, Bauer, and Nike have all been used by the NHL over the past 25 years, and many of them can still be found in my store! I search far and wide to bring you fully customized replica sweaters starting at just $59.99, and Authentic NHL On Ice Game sweaters starting at only $159.99! Don’t take my word for it, read my customer reviews!

     Please pay goon-gear a visit today! You will also find a link to my store conveniently located in the upper-right margin of this blog! If you don’t find what you are looking for in my store, simply use any one of the store’s listings to ask a question. Let me know what you are looking for, and I will try to find it for you! It is that simple! As always, thank you for reading my blog, and I hope to hear from you soon through my Webstore!

Liberals and hockey jerseys?

                                                              Liberals and hockey jerseys?

    As anyone who reads this blog with any regularity knows, I hate bogus hockey sweaters. Bogus, meaning: wrong font, wrong patches, wrong brand for the season, etc… Today, I was scanning eBay for various items, and ran across eBay item # 160734309450 (see pic below) which is “supposed to be” an Eric Cole, Carolina Hurricanes, 2006 Stanley Cup jersey. I sent the seller a polite message letting him / her know that there was a laundry list of things wrong with their item description, and that it was factually incorrect. For example, anyone with any knowledge of Canes jerseys can take one look at the jersey and tell that the font is incorrect. The name on the back is the correct font, but the numbers are WAY wrong. In addition, the Canes, and the entire NHL for that matter, have worn Reebok jerseys since the 2005-06 season. This person has a 2006 Cup patch on a CCM jersey… The seller then called me an idiot for "not knowing" that 2007-08 was the first NHL season for Reebok jerseys... WRONG!!! / LOL!!! If you will recall, the last season that the NHL wore CCM / KOHO brand sweaters was the 2003-04 season. The lockout season was 2004-05. When play resumed for the 2005-06 season, Reebok had purchased CCM / KOHO and began producing the Asian-sweatshop quality garbage that all NHL players are forced to wear to this day.

            

             In short, I tried nicely to present the aforementioned facts to the seller in question… However, I was met with more insults and more factually incorrect arguments. Even after I pointed the seller to various hockey, and hockey jersey data-bases, which would set him straight, he continued to spew factually incorrect BS in an attempt to validate his bogus sweater. Upon realizing that there was no convincing this seller of the truth, it hit me like a ton of bricks! I had a flash-back to a recent television interview with the obviously delusional and clearly mentally unstable Debbie Wasserman Schultz. At that moment, I realized that the illogic of the eBay seller could only mean one thing… He is a liberal! It will be fun though to see how many educated readers of this blog (most of you) will now go to that eBay jersey auction and call this person out for his bogus jersey. That would surely drive him nuts! HINT, HINT…   UPDATE: I just went back to the bogus jersey auction, and he has taken it down! LOL!!!

                                   

     

                   

Counterfeit is counterfeit! PERIOD!

Recently, I received a comment from someone (which I did not publish), stating that I was confused about what constitutes a counterfeit jersey on eBay. However, since that particular individual is clearly the one that is confused, please allow me to clarify.

     If someone handed you a twenty-dollar bill, and you could clearly see that the bill was not correct, i.e. the picture was wrong, the design was wrong, etc., you would not say that it was simply a “poorly made” or “poorly customized” twenty dollar bill! No, you would call it what it is, a COUNTERFEIT! Even if it were printed on the correct kind of paper, you would call it what it is, a COUNTERFEIT! The same goes for hockey jerseys!

     Anyone who has read my blog for any length of time knows that I hate the counterfeit market that eBay facilitates. At least 70% of the jerseys (All sports) on eBay are Asian-sweatshop counterfeits. So, in the past, when I have posted pictures of FAKE, or COUNTERFEIT jerseys, along with pictures of the CORRECT jersey next to them, it is to point out that there are people who are not experienced enough to tell the difference.

     Just because a legit blank CCM jersey was used as the platform for a customization, it can still be BOGUS! If some clown slaps the wrong patches on it, the wrong color or style of font on it etc., it becomes a BOGUS jersey. If you are some kind of overly-sensitive, PC, liberal nut-job who does not like the word “counterfeit” because it might hurt someone’s feelings, then find another word you are comfortable with… Either way, the jersey has become a counterfeit! PERIOD! Just look at some of the examples I have posted in previous entries! In addition, almost all of those sellers made outright statements in their eBay listings that their jerseys were legit, when in fact they were anything but! That just proves my point!

     Bogus, counterfeit, fake, call them what you want, but they are NOT simply “poorly customized jerseys!” That is like calling a burglar an uninvited houseguest, or a drug-dealer an unlicensed pharmacist… Call things what they are!