World's Largest Hockey Stick

Eveleth, Minnesota, United States

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The City of Eveleth says its hockey stick weighs 10,000 pounds (5 tons) and is 110 feet long. The city places it in Hockey Plaza and says it was made by Sentinel Structures, Inc. of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and arrived on 18 June 2002, taking the original spot of the 1995 stick. The city bills it as the world's largest free-standing hockey stick. The city's page on the stick is undated and the Duluth News Tribune account is from 2019.

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Eveleth, Minnesota, built a wooden hockey stick 110 feet long beside a giant puck, and it is the town's second.

The City of Eveleth says it is sometimes called the Big Stick or simply The Stick, and that everyone in Eveleth knows that means the World's Largest Free Standing Hockey Stick; it weighs 10,000 pounds. The city's page places it at the corner of Monroe Street and Grant Avenue, in Hockey Plaza. The Duluth News Tribune described it in 2019 as an honest-to-goodness wooden stick, not fiberglass, and said whether to call it the world's largest or the world's largest free-standing stick is a point of some controversy.

The city says the landmark began in 1995, when the original stick was dedicated on September 16, built by the Christian Brothers of white and yellow aspen. Roadside America says that first stick was 107 feet long and weighed over three tons, and that a longer, 205-foot wooden sculpture existed elsewhere. The city's page says that structure was turned down by what it calls the World Book of Records because it was not a real hockey stick.

The city says the original was lowered to the ground on July 3, 2001 over concerns about its structural integrity; Roadside America says it had begun to crack. The new one is three feet longer and 3,000 pounds heavier, according to Roadside America, which puts the puck at 700 pounds.

The city says that on June 18, 2002, Eveleth was abuzz at news that the new stick, manufactured by Sentinel Structures of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was on its way, a day earlier than anticipated. A State Patrol escort brought it to downtown Eveleth, and it rested in the original spot of the old stick.

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