Mike Bossy Autographed Clear Acrylic Hockey Stick (Signed In Orange) with "HOF 91" Inscription $467.98

Mike Bossy Autographed Clear Acrylic Hockey Stick (Signed In Orange) with "HOF 91" Inscription $467.98

Enjoy this hockey stick featuring NHL player Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders. A great collector's piece for all New York Islanders fans!

Drafted 15th overall in the 1977 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders, Mike Bossy began a stellar 10-year career whereby he established himself as one of the most talented snipers the game has ever seen. The "Boss" amassed 573 goals and 553 assists for a total of 1,126 points in only 752 games, averaging nearly 1.5 points per game. Mike Bossy has hand signed in orange this clear acrylic New York Islanders hockey stick, and added the inscription, "HOF 91." A Steiner Sports Certificate of Authenticity is included.

Michael Dean Mike Bossy (born January 22, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played for the New York Islanders during their four-year reign as Stanley Cup champions in the early 1980s. He was renowned for his rapid, powerful, and accurate shot, his consistency in scoring goals, and his sportsmanlike play. Mike Bossy was perennially among the league's goal scoring leaders during his career, and although his career was cut short by injuries, he is still considered one of the greatest natural goal scorers and snipers in the history of the game.

Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky are the only players to have scored 50 or more goals for nine seasons. Mike Bossy also had nine consecutive 50 goal seasons, a feat unmatched even today. Additionally, both are the only players ever to have scored 60 or more goals in as many as five seasons. Unlike Gretzky, however, who played 20 seasons, Mike Bossy was healthy enough only for 10, of which only the first nine were full.

Mike Bossy  averaged .762 goals per game in the regular season, more than any other player in NHL history, and .659 in the playoffs, second only to Mario Lemieux at .710.

In 1977–78, his rookie season, he scored 53 goals which established a rookie record. This was broken in 1992–93 by Teemu Selänne's 76 goals. However, Selänne was four years older than Mike Bossy had been at the time he set the rookie record.

In 1980–81, he scored 50 goals in the first 50 games of the season. He also recorded nine hat tricks that season, establishing an NHL-record (later broken by Gretzky in 1981–1982 with 10. Gretzky tied his own record with 10 hat tricks again in 1983–1984).

In 1982, Mike Bossy set scoring records for right-wingers with 83 assists and 147 points in 80 games. These would stand until the 1995–96 season when Jaromir Jagr broke both records with 87 assists and 149 points, in what was an 82-game schedule.

Mike Bossy earned the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1982, and scored 17 goals in three straight playoffs -- 1981, 1982, and 1983 -- the only player ever to do so. In reaching the Stanley Cup Finals five times, between 1980 and 1984, Bossy scored 69 goals.

Mike Bossy earned 5 First Team All-Star selections, one of only four right wings ever to do so.

He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1991. His #22 jersey was retired by the New York Islanders on March 3, 1992.

In 1998, he was ranked number 20 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.

In 2007, Mike Bossy was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame.

Mike Bossy is also the fastest player to reach 100 goals, based on the number of games played.