Another happy ending involving Sidney Crosby's sweater.
His game-worn white jersey from the world junior hockey championship fetched $22,100 in an online auction Wednesday. The winning bidder was AMG Medical Inc. of Montreal, a national supplier of medical, surgical and home health-care products.
"We're very, very excited about this," AMG Medical president Philip delBuey said from Montreal.
"It's tremendous to have Sidney's jersey but our motivation really in buying it is also to help the beneficiaries of this auction, which are the victims of the tsunami and all the Canadian youths who participate in Hockey Canada's programs."
Hockey Canada has auctioned several items from the world junior championship to raise money for those causes.
The bidding on the EBay auction got somewhat frantic in the final minutes, with the price jumping $2,000 before the close.
"We were just trying to outbid everybody to make sure we got the sweater," delBuey said. "The sweater ties into a lot of other things we do as a company.
"We support local hockey in different parts of the country. In Halifax we support the Bradley Marks Memorial Hockey Tournament, and that tournament was set up in the memory of the son of our regional manager in Nova Scotia, Kevin Marks. And by coincidence, Kevin's wife knows the Crosby family."
The white jersey, worn by the teenage Rimouski Oceanic star in games against Finland and Sweden, was initially pulled off the online auction when Crosby's red sweater went missing on his way home from the tournament in North Dakota.
When police found his red jersey, Hockey Canada put the white sweater back in the auction last Friday. There were 59 bids in total.
DelBuey already has ideas for the jersey.
"You can rest assured it's going to be hung up in our office here," he said. "We're probably going to frame the jersey and have it in our conference room."