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MeiGray Auctions ECHL All-Star Game-Worn Jerseys, Game-Used Pucks

January 20, 2009 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release


PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL in association with The MeiGray Group announced that fans will have the opportunity to purchase jerseys and pucks from the ECHL All-Star Game and Skills Competition presented by Guardian Wear.

"Jerseys are the fabric of the game, and collecting jerseys gets us all closer to the game," said Barry Meisel, MeiGray's President and Chief Operating Officer. "We're so proud that we can distribute jerseys of the ECHL's brightest stars to fans across the globe."

The Reading Royals, the City of Reading and the Sovereign Center will host the 17th Annual ECHL All-Star Game on Wednesday and the 12th Annual All-Star Skills Competition on Tuesday.

The Eighth Annual All-Star Game-Worn Jersey Auction will begin when the puck drops to start the game on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 7:05 p.m. ET while the Sixth Annual All-Star Puck Auction will begin Thursday, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. ET and the Sixth Annual All-Star Game-Worn Skills Competition Jersey Auction and Game-Used Puck Auction will be Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. ET.

The jerseys worn by the 21 members of the American Conference and the 21 members of the National Conference during the first period of play on Jan. 21 will be auctioned live during the game simultaneously at the Sovereign Center and online at ECHL.com, MeiGray.com and ECHLAuction.at.edeal.com/.

In addition to the jerseys, game-used and goal-scoring pucks from the All-Star Game as well as jerseys and pucks from the skills competition will also be collected and auctioned at ECHLAuction.at.edeal.com/.

Each player in the ECHL All-Star Game will wear a different jersey in each of the game's three periods. The jerseys worn in the second period will be available to the general sports collecting public at a later date through MeiGray, a Branchburg, N.J., company that also partners with the National Hockey League in the NHL-MGG Game-Worn Jersey Authentication Program and the American Hockey League in the AHL-MGG Game-Worn Jersey Program . The players will keep the jersey that they wear during the third period.

Each ECHL team will wear one set of home and road jerseys for the first half of the season and another set for the second half. MeiGray , which offers game-worn jerseys from all ECHL teams to hockey fans and sports collectors worldwide, owns the exclusive rights to the jerseys worn during the first half of the season while the teams own the exclusive rights to jerseys worn for the second half as well as all specialty jerseys and jerseys worn during the 2008 Kelly Cup Playoffs. Fans and collectors can order the jerseys of their favorite teams at MeiGray.com or telephone MeiGray toll-free at (888) 463-4472 for more information.

The leading distributor of game-worn hockey jerseys and "Official Game-Worn Jersey Source of the ECHL," MeiGray has sold more than 4,500 game-worn ECHL jerseys since the program began in 2002-03, including nearly 1,000 each of the past four seasons.

There have been four coaches and 50 players from the All-Star Game who have advanced to the National Hockey League. Thirty players from the All-Star Game have gone on to play in the NHL since 2002 when the lineups began having players who coaches felt were prospects to move up to a higher level.

The Stanley Cup and the Patrick J. Kelly Cup will both be on display throughout the event, marking the ninth time in the last 10 years that the NHL championship trophy and the ECHL championship trophy have been displayed together at the All-Star Game.

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