Nathan MacKinnon #29

I bought this jersey on eBay and got it for what I thought was a pretty reasonable price for an Edge 2.0 TI “Blueberry” Wordmark.  The final bid was just under $300, not too bad for a starting bid of $250.  

​This jersey was originally issued to Bryan Lerg for the 2013-14 season, but he did not make it up to the NHL.  I figured this would not be too bad a way to get an authentic MacKinnon Blueberry versus spending thousands more on a game-worn Blueberry.  Assuming that I could convince an owner of a MacKinnon Blueberry to sell theirs. I thought it was pretty cool that this jersey was issued for Lerg in 13-14, the same as MacKinnon’s rookie year.  Like the Silas away TI, I sent the jersey directly to Dex at Liberty Bell Jerseys to strip and clean before sending it off to EPS. 

It’s a 56, which is a bit big on me, but finding an authentic version of this style of jersey is damn near impossible.  I’m a lot less hopeful with Murphy’s Law on finding a smaller size of this jersey.  I think there are some jerseys you are just happy to find one of, without worrying too much about the size. 

I had this alternate jersey customized to the same style worn by MacKinnon in his rookie year! 

Because of the jersey originally being issued to another player in 2013-14 I thought it’d be fun to leave on the Meigray tag.  I had Matt at Liberty Bell strip off the Meigray tags on my MacKinnon Home & Away (since those jerseys were issued to another player for the 2011-12 season).

​I sent this jersey off to EPS in Jan 2022 and got it back in June 2022, about 2 months faster than I expected it!