The Edmonton Oilers may not have won a Stanley Cup in almost 20 years, but on the auction block, the love lives on.
The five Stanley cup rings held by former team owner Peter Pocklington fetched US$272,829 after bidding closed late Tuesday on the auction website www.classicauctions.net.
The ring commemorating the Oilers final Stanley Cup win in 1990 captured the highest payout -- $72,151 from among 30 bids.
The second-highest was $61,174 from the team's second championship in 1985.
All bids were in U.S. funds.
There were an average of 25 bids each for the rings, part of a collection that Pocklington _ who now lives in Palm Springs, Calif. -- has said he was selling to raise funds for his grandchildren's education.
Pocklington put 29 items up for sale on the website of the Quebec-based firm. A winning bid of $7,786 took home the replica miniature Stanley Cup given to Pocklington after the first win and a Wayne Gretzky CCM prototype jersey went for $880.
The love for the Oilers dyanasty far exceeded the interest in the New York Islanders' four-year reign that came before it.
The 1980 Stanley Cup ring belonging to Clark Gillies -- the bruising left winger from the team's dynasty years -- attracted 15 bidders and a winning bid of just under $19,000 on the site. A second ring from the 1982 Islanders championship fetched $17,270.
Gillies' four replica mini Stanley Cup trophies went for an average of $5,360 while a Gillies 1980 Stanley Cup championship game-worn jersey -- with a Lake Placid Olympic patch -- brought 24 bidders and a payout of $13,155.
The 54-year-old winger -- born in Moose Jaw, Sask., and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002 -- starred for years with Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier on the Islanders' famed "Trio Grande'' line.
