This autographed game-worn helmet features moderate wear, including cuts, scratches, abrasions, paint transfer and a photomatched strip of tape around the chinstrap not found in other images from the same season.
Based on the photomatches, Skoula wore it for an early portion of the 1999-2000 season, his rookie season, before turning it into a practice helmet.
Avs players often wore game and practice helmets for multiple seasons in this era. It's likely that Skoula used it as a practice helmet through the end of the 1999-2000 season (based on the photomatches), then had the trainer change the number from his rookie 55 to 41 for use as a practice helmet for the 2000-01 Stanley Cup-winning season.
