While playing your part to stop COVID-19, you can now cheer — and if need be cough and sneeze — for your favourite National Hockey League team.
The league announced Tuesday morning that licensed cloth face coverings for all 31 teams are available for purchase on NHLShop.com .
Proceeds are going to support the Feeding America and Food Banks Canada COVID-19 Response Fund.
The NHL has licensed U.S.-based FOCO to manufacture the facemasks, which are available with branding for all 31 teams in packs of three for US$24.99 on NHLShop.com and FOCO.com .
“The health, well-being and safety of our fans and all communities across Canada, the United States and around the world, is our number one priority,” said Kim Davis, NHL executive vice-president for Social Impact, Growth Initiatives and Legislative Affairs.
“We’re committed to assisting in the effort to support the face-covering guidelines from the Centres for Disease Control and Health Canada with the important benefit and outcome of helping food banks across the U.S. and Canada in their efforts to feed people in need during this unprecedented time.”
FOCO will also be making contributions to support the food banks in both countries.
The league statement encouraged fans to continue practising social distancing and take precautions, adding the masks are for personal use in keeping with health authorities recommendations. They’re not intended for medical use and are not a replacement for medical-grade personal protective equipment.
Food Banks Canada is the nation’s leading hunger relief organization, working in collaboration with a network of more than 3,500 organizations coast-to-coast.
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