Game on: How COVID-19 crisis pivoted Bauer Hockey from skate-maker to medical face shield manufacturer

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Dan Bourgeois is a Montreal Canadiens fan and an engineer by profession. Among his talents is dreaming up great, new, hockey-gear related ideas, which is something he and his design team do a lot o…

Dan Bourgeois is a Montreal Canadiens fan and an engineer by profession. Among his talents is dreaming up great, new, hockey-gear related ideas, which is something he and his design team do a lot of at Bauer Hockey’s innovation centre north of Montreal.

Guy Lafleur wore Bauer skates. Eric Lindros was a Bauer guy. The billionaire Bronfman family owned the company for a spell, the billionaire Desmarais family owns it now. Hockey, in this country, has been played on Bauer skates ever since the company’s founding in Kitchener, Ont. in 1927.

Several ideas were floated, debated and, ultimately, put aside as a plan to make medical-grade face shields for frontline healthcare workers took shape. Bauer, along with all those skates, makes NHL visors. A visor stops sticks and pucks. A well-executed face shield stops viruses. Four prototypes later, each of which was tested by a doctor whose kid works as a designer for the company, and the Bauer facial protector was born.

“Our team had about five different concepts, and we think all might be needed by medical workers eventually,” Bourgeois says. “But we asked ourselves, what can we make as quickly as possible — and face protectors was a core competency.”

 

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