Marc Posner playing at Honda Center, home of the Anaheim Ducks in 2008. “ I stole it from an opponent, skated the length of the ice and scored (a rare goal for me).”
Marc’s favorite piece: a game-used puck from the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim first home game, October 1993. “It sits atop the cabinet at the entrance to my office in the Cypress College Complex adjacent a family photo we took with the Stanley Cup following the Ducks championship in 2007.”
Marc’s second-favorite puck is signed by Bob Corkum, one of the original Mighty Ducks. “When we transitioned to work from home in March 2020, I wanted items around me…similar to those I have on display in the office…This one sits on the bookcase behind my desk and appears in the background on my Zoom calls" It is “a little piece of Cypress College at home.”
Pucks displayed on autographed sticks mark milestones in the family’s playing history, including, on the bottom stick, JP’s first goal with the Jr. Ducks, and a puck from the first game that he and Marc played in together; and on the top stick, Noah’s four player of the game awards from a season with the Orange County Hockey Club.
Sitting on a trophy shelf in the Posner boys’ bedroom, this puck tower includes a weekly scoring award from a period when all four family members played and a commemorative puck from the Anaheim Ducks 2007 Stanley Cup championship victory.
A puck from Marc Posner’s first full season of ice hockey. (“Savvy hockey fans will note my team won the championship two years to the day after the Ducks brought the Stanley Cup to California for the first time.”)
“When a hockey player achieves a milestone, the puck in play is generally gifted to the player and the achievement designated in writing either directly onto the puck or on tape wrapped around the disk. This puck is from my older son’s first hat trick.”
Pucks from two trips to Detroit: “The “Spitfires” play in Windsor, Canada. My older son and I landed in Detroit, raced to the hotel, dropped our stuff off, and crossed the border to catch the game.”
One of JP’s first player of the game pucks from the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League. “I stumbled upon it in his bag and rescued it into the collection. It sits in a front window at our condo.”
A New Jersey Devils puck signed “To Jake and Noah Posner.”
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The Posner family loves ice hockey. Their home is adorned with signed sticks, medals, photographs, and trophies; parents Marc and Karen, and children Jacob “JP,” and Noah all play or have played the game; and, as Marc explained, “hockey pretty much ensures we really only travel to cold places in the middle of winter.”
The stars of the Posner collection, however, are the pucks. These “disk-shaped objects made of vulcanized rubber” are more than hockey’s “flat ball” to the Posners [1]. “Unlike “photos of the boys playing hockey [which] provide great reminders of our time at the rink…the pucks tend to be game-used artifacts and are often from their biggest moments.”
“When a hockey player achieves a milestone, the puck in play is generally gifted to the player and the achievement designated in writing either directly onto the puck or on tape wrapped around the disk.” Some of the family’s big moments include the boys’ first “player of the game” pucks, JP’s first hat trick, Noah’s first tournament win, and one from a game in Canada when they “landed in Detroit, raced to the hotel, dropped our stuff off, and crossed the border to catch the game.”
Looking back a little further, the collection also includes a memento from Marc’s first full ice hockey season. “My team won the championship and I grabbed the puck to keep as a souvenir. I ended up having surgery on each knee as a result of injuries in this game — but I had a goal, and an assist, and received a championship t-shirt.”
“The obvious observation about this collection,” said Marc “is that it reveals my love of hockey. At a level deeper, this is a passion I have been able to enjoy with my children…But I guess what really makes [the pucks] desirable are the memories attached to them…When the hockey bags are all packed for the last time, these are the types of great memories I will keep.”
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[1] http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/hockey-puck