Photo Matched

Wayne Gretzky  - Bauer Air knit, size 56.  This is just one of the rarest jerseys ever to hit the hobby to date. There has only been two real Team Canada jerseys released to the general public from this tournament  but not a Team Canada Wayne Gretzky.  The provenance of this jersey is unbelievable. A lady that worked for the CNIB (Canadian National Institute of the Blind) received this jersey directly from Wayne Gretzky himself.  The lady was in charge of a photo session and in appreciation to one of Wayne's #1 charities he gave her this jersey.  The jersey has been taken to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto and shown to Phil Pritchard, we matched it up against the Hall's only Team Canada jersey from this tournament and to our amazement it was also a White Wayne Gretzky.  They match up exactly in every detail.  Except that ours shows more game use. The jersey has also been shown to Walter Gretzky. This jersey is so rare that according to Walter he does not even personally own one in his collection. With over 100 man hours of research logged into this jersey it was finally photo matched and video matched.  Here is the story.  On August 26^th Team Canada plays Russia to a 4-4 tie in Calgary wearing the white jerseys, during the game Sergei Gonchar leveled Eric Lindros with a butt-end hit to the back of the head and Lindros went face first down to the ice. Cutting his forehead on impact to the ice, and after lying motionless for several minutes, Eric was helped off the ice.  This is were Wayne's jersey picks up blood stains on his left shoulder just below the Team Canada emblem.  Which can been seen in the photo up top.  This is a dead on 100% photo match.  The photo comes from the book "Forever an Oiler" written by Terry Jones and the Edmonton Sun.  The jersey is also photo matched to the crooked Captains "C", you can see that it is pinched in a little as compared to the one at the Hall.  The jersey is also photo matched to the two overtime win Semi-Final game vs. Sweden. Wayne used a long cuff Easton glove with a red band at the end of the glove, this red band then bleed into the jerseys left sleeve and can clearly be seen in several photo's. Also to note, Bauer first printed on the Bauer logo on the chest then sewn over the top a patch with a corrected and more readable "R" on the end of Bauer. This area on the sleeve actually turned the sleeve to a pinkish hue. 

My research has concluded that this jersey was worn in the following games:

August 26th CDN vs. Russia 4-4 in Calgary

August 27th CDN vs. Slovakia 7-4 in Edmonton 

September 7^th CDN vs. Sweden 3-2 in 2OT in Philadelphia 

Game Wear:  Photo Matched