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Own A Piece Of Canadian History

by Paul on 05/26/10 at 08:31 PM ET
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from Andy Blatchford of the CP at the Toronto Star,

The hockey sweater worn during one of Canada’s greatest sporting moments is up for auction.

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

The sweater’s owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a cancer survivor who plans to donate some of the proceeds to charity, said Marc Juteau, president of Classic Auctions, the Montreal-area company handling the sale. Henderson was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia last fall.

“It’s somebody that really cares about what’s going on with Mr. Henderson, somebody who’s been there,” Juteau said

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Get Well Paul Henderson

by Paul on 02/18/10 at 07:38 PM ET
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via CBC,

Canadian hockey hero Paul Henderson has revealed he is battling cancer.

Henderson made his illness public on CBC-TV’s Connect with Mark Kelley on Thursday.

Henderson, 67, from Lucknow, Ont., is perhaps most famous for scoring the series-clinching goal in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series between the Canadian and Soviet Union hockey teams.

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