Reebok says tipline and reward are paying dividends in search for missing Crosby gear

Reebok: progress made in search for Crosby gear

TORONTO — Reebok says its tipline and $10,000 reward for Sidney Crosby’s missing Olympic glove and stick are already paying dividends.

Len Rhodes, vice president and general manager for Reebok Hockey CCM, says the tipline is producing everything from encouraging comments to claims of “potential information.”

Crosby used the stick — a Reebok 10K Sickick II model that retails for $249 — and glove to score the overtime goal that decided the Olympic men’s hockey final against the United States on Feb. 28 in Vancouver.

The equipment disappeared after Crosby threw aside his stick and ripped off his gloves to celebrate Canada’s Olympic victory.

Hockey Canada has said all of the equipment from the game was collected and was being put into the players’ bags when it was noticed Crosby’s stick and glove were missing.

The organization is trying to figure out what happened and security officers are reviewing video that shows people leaving the rink with sticks.

A Hockey Canada spokesman said there was nothing new yet as of Monday afternoon.

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, N.D.

It was later found in a mailbox outside a post office in Lachute, Quebec.