If you’d like to own a piece of Olympic hockey history, you can.
Hockey Canada announced Friday that game-worn jerseys from the men’s and women’s teams currently competing at Pyeongchang 2018 will be auctioned off online with proceeds going towards the growth and development of grassroots hockey in Canada.
The auction for the women’s jerseys begins Feb. 17, while the men’s jersey auction opens Feb. 20. Each will last five days with The Hockey Canada Foundation and Canadian Olympic Foundation will sharing net proceeds from the auctions.
“Canada’s Olympians — both past and present — inspire our nation to not only come together to support our athletes, but also to get involved in sport and active, healthy lifestyles,” Hockey Canada Foundation executive director Donna Iampieri said in a press release. “We want to help make our women’s and men’s Olympic hockey teams’ legacies live on well beyond the Games themselves. Working with the Canadian Olympic Foundation, we will provide hockey and Olympic fans from around the world an opportunity to bid on a piece of the history from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games — game-worn Olympic hockey jerseys from the 48 players who are representing our nation in Pyeongchang.”
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