Sidney Crosby’s missing stick and glove have been found.
Hockey Canada says the missing Olympic gear was misplaced rather than stolen, with both items ending up in the wrong place in the process of packing and shipping equipment after the Olympic final.
The stick and glove were the ones used by Crosby when he scored the overtime goal in the 3-2 win Feb. 28 over the U.S. in Vancouver.
Crosby’s stick was located in Toronto as part of a shipment heading to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in St. Petersburg, Russia. The stick was being sent to the IIHF in the mistaken belief that it was not the game stick.
The IIHF helped locate the stick and then provided photographs to Crosby, who confirmed that it was the game stick.
The missing glove was discovered by Team Canada teammate Patrice Bergeron. It had been inadvertently placed in one of the Boston Bruin’s equipment bags.
“With everyone’s co-operation, we were able to locate these items and are pleased to be able to return the stick and glove to its rightful owner,” Scott Salmond, Hockey Canada’s director of men’s national teams, said in a statement Wednesday.
Hockey Canada said both the stick and glove were en route to Crosby.
After the gear went missing, an investigation was launched and Reebok put up a $10,000 reward for the stick.
This isn’t the first time some of Crosby’s gear has vanished.
In 2005, Crosby’s jersey went missing after Canada’s gold medal win over Russia at the world junior hockey championship in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
It was later found in a mailbox outside a post office in Lachute, Que.
Also Wednesday, Crosby announced he was giving his $20,000 medal bonus to the Sidney Crosby Foundation, which provides financial help to local charities in Nova Scotia.
Bell Canada is matching Crosby’s donation.