Hockey fans, this item is your calling!! On December 9, 2021, Fleury reached his 500th career win as an NHL Goalie in a shutout against the Montreal Canadiens, becoming the 3rd goaltender in NHL history to reach the historic mark in company with Patrick Roy & Martin Brodeur. On December 15, 2021, The Chicago Blackhawks honored Fleury with a pregame ceremony in celebration of his achievement including a custom-made trophy helmet in recognition of his major feat, and they also had every player on his team wear jerseys with the "Fleury" name on the back with all jersey numbers reading "500" during the warm-ups of the game. Marc-Andre Fleury wore this jersey during those warm-ups. This is the best item that you will see surface from this big moment in Fleury's career from this game, as the jersey he wore against Washington is in his possession and may never leave his side in his lifetime. This jersey has also been hand signed by the future Hall of Famer on the middle zero of the jersey. This is a must-have for all man caves, offices, game rooms and lady lairs!
This item is professionally museum quality professionally custom framed in a black frame that features suede matting throughout as well as plexi glass displays, laser cut Blackhawks logos, a silver nameplate at the bottom of the frame proving information about the jersey and (4) 5x7 Photos of him wearing this particular jersey on the very night. This frame measures approximately 51" x 42" x 2". If you are looking for a top quality frame job for your framed jersey, then this is the one for you. Quality unmatched from the materials to the design layout and throughout! In addition, on the back of the frame we added a plexi glass display, so you can see the actual front of the jersey through the frame, making this frame job even higher quality! You will notice around the bottom right of the logo is a black mark which is actually from Fleury being hit with a puck directly into his stomach that he missed while wearing this jersey!
Certificate of Authenticity: This item has been certified authentic by THE Chicago Blackhawks organization as being worn by him for this particular game on December 15, 2021. The jersey came to us already hand been signed by Fleury from the Blackhawks. The jersey includes the team's Certificate of Authenticity document they provided us as certifying it as his and worn. In addition, this item has been certified authentic from Resolution Photomatching as being worn by him as well. Over the last 5 years, photomatching has been a much more definitive way of authenticating game used equipment as they look for manufacturing flaws on items or certain marks as seen in photos provided by NHL photographers. They find some of the smallest identifiers and are able to use technology to match the photographs up provided by the league to the item in question and then shown the comparison information they found and display the evidence as seen in the paperwork of this listing. Resolution Photomoatching is considered the most reputable and recognized authenticators in photomatching in the business today, as they are the pioneer of this method and are used by nearly every major auction house in the memorabilia industry because of their reputation and unique system the definitely identifies items that most are not able to do. You will recieve the 4-page paperwork they provided for this item, including the actual Certificate of Authenticity with explanations written out as to how they came to their conclusion. IT does not get much better than having the paperwork from the team plus the industry leader in photomatching guaranteeing this jersey is the real deal!
