Connor McDavid’s historic 2023-24 season might have ended in a devastating Game 7 loss in the Stanley Cup Final — despite becoming the sixth player in history to be awarded the Conn Smythe on the losing team — but his accolades will stand the test of time.
During the season, the Edmonton Oilers star recorded a league-leading 100 assists and finished the Stanley Cup playoffs with an NHL-record 34 assists and 42 points, behind only Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux for the most in a postseason.
Memorabilia from that regular season and unforgettable postseason run went under the auction block at MeiGray on Tuesday night, resulting in eye-catching hammer prices.
The top item of the 12-lot auction was a pair of skates photo-matched to all seven games of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, which sold for $20,060 after spirited bidding drove the price up from under $3,000 just hours prior to the auction closing.
In 2017, McDavid’s skates from his first NHL All-Star Game sold for $6,240. Jean Beliveau's skates from his 500th goal sold for $57,419.75 in 2020.
McDavid’s helmet, worn in five regular-season games and 10 playoff games, including four of the seven Stanley Cup Final games, sold for $16,000.
McDavid’s helmet from the 2016-17 season, photo-matched to six games, sold for $7,600 in 2017. Gretzky’s helmet from his 1978 WHA season and NHL debut season in 1979 sold for $15,503.93 in 2013.
Other lots from the auction included McDavid’s pants, worn in 48 regular-season and 10 playoff games across five seasons — including his 500th NHL point — sold for just under $4,000.
McDavid’s stick, used in one regular-season game and three playoff matchups, fetched more than $3,600. Six pairs of socks worn in each game of the Stanley Cup Final, except for Game 6, all sold, ranging from $1,670 for his Game 4 pair to $450 for the Game 3 socks.
Last year, a McDavid jersey from the night he scored his first NHL goal sold privately for more than $250,000, cllct reported exclusively.
That sale placed the jersey as the most expensive McDavid jersey ever sold and the sixth-most expensive NHL sweater of all time, behind five Gretzky sales.
Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct.