Reebok's Sport Maska Recalls Hockey Facemasks in Canada, U.S.

Sport Maska Inc., the hockey equipment unit of Adidas AG, recalled 1,325 facemasks in the U.S. and Canada because they failed quality-control tests.

Some of the masks didn't meet requirements set by the Canadian Standards Association in random testing, the Montreal- based company said in a Canada NewsWire statement today.

Sport Maska, a division of Adidas's Reebok unit, said it hasn't received any reports of injuries from the FM5K masks, which were sold in March and April for between $30 and $130. During testing, a hockey puck dented some of the masks, said Denise Kaigler, a Reebok spokeswoman in Canton, Massachusetts.

``Although there's a minimal chance that in regular hockey play denting would occur, we still made a decision to issue the recall,'' she said.

Adidas, based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, is the world's second-largest sporting goods retailer. Its Reebok unit has exclusive rights to supply equipment to National Hockey League teams, the company said.

source:bloomberg.com