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First pieces of world’s largest hockey stick go on sale [Video]

Inside Maxwell’s Auto Centre in Mill Bay is man who has his work cut out for him.

“I’ll be at it for a while,” said Bart Robertson, who owns Maxwell’s Auto Centre and Genuine Collectibles.

That’s an understatement.

Robertson bought the world’s largest hockey stick, which used to reside in Duncan, but was taken down earlier this after decades of wear and tear left it at the end of its lifespan.

Now, it sits on Robertson’s wrecking yard property in pieces.

Slowly but surely, that’s beginning to change. Robertson has started transforming the pieces of the iconic 28-tonne stick int “key fobs” not much bigger than a toonie.

“To build this product, I had to get it into manageable sections,” said Robertson.

The process begins in a decommissioned school bus on the grounds of the wrecking yard. One-foot-long, 300-pound sections are cut from the stick. From those sections, tubes are drilled out and …

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