Sniper Skin: local invention extends life of hockey sticks
- Dec 12, 2015
- 2 min read
Sniper Skin is a money-saving product for the hockey world created by Lee Wright. The Dundas resident and his wife invented it to extend the life of players’ sticks.
“I was tired of hockey tape letting me down, and I tried all the alternatives on the market for tape replacements and I couldn’t find one, so I created one. It’s called Sniper Skin,” says Wright.”
This product is designed to replace the traditional black or white hockey tape that’s been used by players for many years. “Sniper Skin is a sleeve that you put on your stick, either the blade or grip. You then pour boiling hot water over it, and it custom forms and shrinks to the stick in seconds,” Wright explains.
The product costs between $14 and $20, depending on the size of the hockey stick.
Sniper Skin is a family-owned business. The public got its fist look at the invention when both Lee and April Wright both appeared on the show Lions Lair on Cable 14 in Hamilton. The innovative hockey tape replacement product won the top prize in this year’s competition for inventors. Lion’s Lair is similar to the CBC’s Dragons’ Den program.
“Lions Lair has been phenomenal, the experience of the media training and consultants … to help us get this going is phenomenal. We’ve been pretty happy with it and I look forward to what’s coming,” says the company’s co-founder April Wright.
She says with the product starting to take off, the Lee family would love to eventually expand the business and create new products for the sport of hockey.
“We do want to run it as a corporation but at this point we’re hoping to keep it in the family and make a legacy.”
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