Sometimes, you’ve got to play out of position to help the team — especially when the team is facing a global coronavirus pandemic.
Bauer, one of North America’s top producers of hockey equipment, is putting its traditional business on ice to produce face shields for front-line workers who are treating patients with COVID-19. “We’re repurposing our production facilities to make face shields so that medical professionals battling COVID-19 can safely continue to help those most vulnerable,” Bauer wrote in a statement on its Facebook page. “Right now, we’re all playing for the same team,” Bauer said.
The company is using hockey visor materials to make full medical face shields, which are meant to protect the wearer from being infected by