Re: RPI 2016 Off Season thread: A Drivel-free Summer
Learned something new today.
One can hardly be a hockey fan for any length of time without noticing that a great deal of hockey equipment bears the CCM brand. But after all the years I've followed the sport, I have to admit that I never knew what those initials stood for.
For any other RPI hockey fans who have been in the same boat with me, and I'll bet there are a good many, here is the answer.
Yesterday, my wife gave me a Penguins hooded sweatshirt, made by CCM, for Fathers' Day (though she probably grimaced a bit when she ordered it, because she's a Flyers fan

). One of the tags attached to the sweatshirt informed me that the CCM company was proud of its more-than-100-year association with the sport of hockey, and that it had originated in 1899 as the Canada Cycle and Motor Company.
CCM originated as a company that manufactured bicycles and automobiles, but when the bicycle market became saturated in 1905, they took some scrap steel that was lying around the plant and started producing hockey skates.