When a pandemic is disrupting society, the demand for hockey equipment isn’t as high as medical equipment. Hockey manufacturing company Bauer has taken that to heart.
Bauer is producing medical shields for hospitals and, according to a story from ESPN’s Emily Kaplan, has orders for more than 100,000 across Canada. Bauer CEO Ed Kinnaly told Kaplan that they are trying to get the word out in the U.S. as well.
"We've been doing outreach to various medical entities,” Kinnaly said. “We're also going to use our social channels to basically let the medical community know that we have the ability to produce these.