

For those of you that haven't followed the story of Minnesota-Duluth equipment manager Chris Garner, earlier this year, he was diagnosed with a long-named disease essentially known as pre-leukemia and needed to undergo a bone marrow transplant to help prolong his life.

The good news is that Garner was able to undergo chemotherapy and receive a bone transplant in August, and has since been recovering nicely, including making his first trip back to Duluth last weekend to watch UMD defeat Providence. Kevin Pates does better justice to the story here.

The bad news for Garner is that his extensive medical work wasn't 100% covered by insurance, and the combination of having to move away from home and not being able to work for many months has left him in some rough financial shape.

St. Cloud State equipment manager Jeremiah Minkel has helped put together an auction with some pretty cool hockey merchandise to help Garner out. You can learn more about the auction through this YouTube video put together by Minkel.

The website for the auction is WWW.OBERMANAUCTION.COM and it begins on October 24th. There's a pretty impressive list of donated items from both college and the NHL--which I will post after the jump--and it's helping out someone that really needs it, so check it out.

List of donated auction items:

DALLAS STARS PRACTICE BLUE JERSEY AUTOGRAPHED BY MODANO ST. LAWRENCE RED JERSEY WASHINGTON CAPITALS RED REPLICA PREMIERE JERSEY AUTOGRAPGHED BY TEAM UNION GARNET JERSEY COLORADO AVALANCHE WHITE GAME JERSEY AUTHENTIC & AUTOGRAPHED BY SAKIC BOSTON COLLEGE WHITE JERSEY CHICAGO BLAWKHAWKS RED REPLICA JERSEY AUTOGRAPHED BY BYFUGLIEN BOSTON U. RED JERSEY MINNESOTA WILD RED GAME JERSEY AUTHENTIC & AUTOGRAPHED BY TEAM BOSTON U. WHITE JERSEY MINNESOTA WILD NAVY PRACTICE JERSEY & AUTOGRAPHED BY TEAM MAINE BLUE JERSEY AIR FORCE WHITE JERSEY UMASS LOWELL RED JERSEY AMERICAN INTL WHITE JERSEY UMASS LOWELL RED JERSEY ARMY GOLD JERSEY MASSACHUSETTS MAROON JERSEY CANISIUS WHITE JERSEY MERRIMACK YELLOW JERSEY UCONN WHITE JERSEY NEW HAMPSHIRE WHITE JERSEY UCONN (WOMENS) BLUE JERSEY NORTHEASTERN BLACK JERSEY UCONN BLUE JERSEY PROVIDENCE BLACK JERSEY HOLY CROSS PURPLE JERSEY PROVIDENCE (WOMENS) BLACK JERSEY MERCYHURST GREEN JERSEY VERMONT GREEN JERSEY MERCYHURST (WOMENS) WHITE JERSEY ALASKA-ANCHORAGE GREY JERSEY , NIAGARA BLACK JERSEY ALASKA-ANCHORAGE WHITE JERSEY RIT ORANGE JERSEY ALASKA-ANCHORAGE YELLOW JERSEY ALASKA BLUE JERSEY , BEMIDJI STATE WHITE JERSEY ALASKA WHITE JERSEY , COLORADO COLLEGE WHITE JERSEY BOWLING GREEN ORANGE JERSEY COLORADO COLLEGE WHITE JERSEY BOWLING GREEN WHITE JERSEY DENVER WHITE JERSEY FERRIS STATE CRISMON JERSEY DENVER WHITE JERSEY MIAMI WHITE JERSEY MICHIGAN TECH BLACK JERSEY MICHIGAN WHITE JERSEY MINNESOTA WHITE JERSEY MICHIGAN STATE GREEN JERSEY MINNESOTA (WOMENS) WHITE JERSEY MICHIGAN STATE GREEN JERSEY MINNESOTA STATE MANKATO PURPLE JERSEY NORTHERN MICHIGAN GREEN JERSEY MINNESOTA-DULUTH MAROON JERSEY AUTOGRAPHED BY STALOCK NOTRE DAME GREEN JERSEY UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA WHITE JERSEY NOTRE DAME GOLD JERSEY UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA RED JERSEY OHIO STATE WHITE JERSEY NORTH DAKOTA BLACK JERSEY OHIO STATE RED JERSEY NORTH DAKOTA (WOMENS) WHITE JERSEY OHIO STATE GRAY JERSEY ST. CLOUD STATE RED JERSEY WESTERN MICHIGAN BLACK JERSEY ST. CLOUD STATE WHITE JERSEY BROWN WHITE JERSEY WISCONSIN WHITE BROWN (WOMENS) WHITE JERSEY

SOUTHERN MINNESOTA EXPRESS BLACK JERSEY (NAHL) CLARKSON WHITE JERSEY NAVAL ACADEMY GOLD JERSEY (ACHA - CLUB) COLGATE WHITE JERSEY PORTLAND WINTERHAWKS WHITE JERSEY(WHA) AUTOGRAPHED BY TEAM CORNELL WHITE JERSEYS PEORIA RIVERMEN WHITE JERSEY (AHL) HARVARD WHITE JERSEY PEORIA RIVERMEN BLUE PRACTICE JERSEY (AHL) RENSSELAER RED JERSEY PORTLAND PIRATES RED JERSEY (AHL)





