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Sherwood, sometimes styled as Sher-Wood, is a Canadian brand of ice hockey equipment owned by the Canadian Tire Corporation through its subsidiary INA International. The brand was created in 1949 in Sherbrooke, Quebec by Léo Paul Drolet, and was manufactured originally by his company Sherbrooke Woodcraft.
The Mailhot brothers trademarked a fibreglass blade for their sticks, which was a major development in the history of the hockey stick. [1] In 1957, Léo-Paul Drolet, the owner of Sher-Wood, took the Mailhots to court over the patent, claiming he had manufactured fibreglass blades two years before the patent was filed. Drolet won the case.
The Hespeler brand originated in the Hespeler Wood Specialty Company in Hespeler, Ontario, which was founded in 1921 and produced hockey sticks. In the 1930s Hespeler was merged with a number of other manufacturing companies to form the Hespeler-St. Mary's Wood Specialty Company, which continued to manufacture hockey sticks at the Hespeler factory.
The oldest known hockey stick dates to the mid-1830s; it was made for William "Dilly" Moffatt (born 1829) from sugar maple wood and is now owned by the Canadian Museum of History. [2] In 2006, a stick made in the 1850s, at the time the oldest known, was sold at auction for $2.2 million; it had been appraised at US$4.25 million.
Girl with a field hockey stick. A hockey stick is a piece of sports equipment used by the players in all the forms of hockey to move the ball or puck (as appropriate to the type of hockey) either to push, pull, hit, strike, flick, steer, launch or stop the ball/puck during play with the objective being to move the ball/puck around the playing area using the stick, and then trying to score.
Inglasco Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of hockey pucks that has operated since 1976. Styled originally as InGlasCo, the company was founded in Sherbrooke, Quebec, by Denis S. Drolet (1951–2023), the son of Sherwood Hockey founder Léo Paul Drolet (1919–2001).