Article content You can’t buy a Stanley Cup championship, but some rings are for sale. With the Edmonton Oilers hoping to win their first championship ring since 1990, former Edmonton Oiler Esa Tikkanen is selling his gold and diamonds from that season. The former super pest is auctioning off four of his five rings, three from the Oilers dynasty (1987, 1988 and 1990) as well as the one from the New York Rangers’ historic title in 1994.
Tikkanen won four championships in Edmonton, but his Stanley Cup from his first season is not for sale. That’s the one with the deep sentimental value. “I promised my dad that I would give him my ring if I ever won,” Tikkanen said in phone interview from Finland.
“So I gave it to him and when he passed away I got it back. I’m keeping that one.” But the others are available to the highest bidder.
Why? Tikkanen says he isn’t an overly emotional person and the rings have just been collecting dust for more than three decades. “They’ve been in jewelry box for 30 years and they don’t fit on my fingers anyway,” he laughed. “I talked to my sons and they said ‘Why don’t you sell them then, a lot of other people are doing the same thing?’ “So I thought why not?” He mulled it over in his head for a while but says he never really agonized over the decision.
“I talked to my sons they said to do it. A lot of other players have sold rings so why don’t I do it right now instead of later. I’m not going to take them in.
