Bauer Hockey To Open First Canadian OWN THE MOMENT Hockey Experience

Leading Hockey Manufacturer Expands Successful and Engaging Retail Initiative to Toronto

TORONTO, May 12, 2016 /CNW/ -- Bauer Hockey, the world's leading manufacturer of ice hockey equipment and a subsidiary of Performance Sports Group Ltd., today announced that it will expand its successful OWN THE MOMENT retail initiative into Canada with the development of a 24,000-square foot location in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan, Ontario.

Slated to open in the summer of 2017, the Toronto OWN THE MOMENT Hockey Experience will become the first location in Canada and only the third location in the world. Last year, Bauer Hockey opened its initial OWN THE MOMENT Hockey Experience in the Boston suburb of Burlington, Mass. and its second location in Bloomington, Minn., just outside of Minneapolis. Bauer Hockey plans to open a total of 8-10 locations throughout North America.

"We're excited to bring the OWN THE MOMENT Hockey Experience to Canada and to the important hockey community of the Greater Toronto Area," said Amir Rosenthal, President, PSG Brands and Interim CEO, Performance Sports Group. "The OWN THE MOMENT Hockey Experience is designed specifically to meet the needs of hockey players of all ages and abilities. We look forward to educating and inspiring current and future hockey players in the area with a unique retail experience that is truly the ultimate BAUER brand and product showcase." 

The Toronto OWN THE MOMENT Hockey Experience will be located at 67 Colossus Drive in Vaughan, Ontario, within the RioCan Colossus Centre at the crossroads of Hwy 400/Hwy 407/Hwy 7 and Weston Road. The retail centre includes major retailers such as Cineplex Colossus, Golf Town and Costco.

Built and designed to deliver the ultimate shopping experience, the OWN THE MOMENT Hockey Experience takes in-store shopping for hockey equipment and apparel to new heights.  The Toronto store will feature a 3,200-square foot indoor ice rink with regulation boards and glass, BAUER Personal Fit Experts to guide each customer through individual fitting protocols, dedicated areas for each product category and specific areas to easily educate new-to-hockey families and welcome them to the sport.

For more information regarding Bauer Hockey's Own The Moment Hockey Experiences visit www.bauer.com/stores

ABOUT BAUER HOCKEY
Bauer Hockey is the world's most recognized designer, marketer and manufacturer of hockey equipment. Founded in Kitchener, Ontario in 1927, Bauer Hockey developed the first skate with a blade attached to a boot, forever changing the game of hockey. Since then, Bauer Hockey has continued to develop the most sought after products in the industry, including the widely successful SUPREME®, VAPOR® and NEXUS® lines of products. Performance Sports Group Ltd., the parent company of Bauer Hockey, is a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange whose affiliates market products under the BAUER, MISSION, MAVERIK, CASCADE, INARIA, COMBAT and EASTON brand names. Performance Sports Group is a member of the Russell 2000 and 3000 Indexes, as well as the S&P/Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index. For more information, visit Bauer Hockey's website at www.BAUER.com.

MEDIA CONTACT
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Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
Performance Sports Group
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Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws including with respect to, among other things, the planned opening of the Bauer retail experience in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan, Ontario in the summer of 2017 as well as the opening of 5-7 additional Bauer retail experiences throughout North America. The words "may," "will," "would," "should," "could," "expects," "plans," "intends," "trends," "indications," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "likely" or "potential" or the negative or other variations of these words or other comparable words or phrases, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements, by their nature, are based on assumptions, including those described herein and are subject to important risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the following factors: inability to maintain and enhance brands, inability to introduce new and innovative products, intense competition in the sporting equipment and apparel industries, inability to own, enforce, defend and protect intellectual property rights worldwide, costs associated with potential lawsuits to enforce, defend or protect intellectual property rights, inability to protect our brands and rights to use such brands, infringement of intellectual property rights of others, inability to translate booking orders into realized sales, including risks associated with changes in the mix or timing of orders placed by customers, seasonal fluctuations in our operating results and the trading price of our Common Shares, decrease in popularity of ice hockey, baseball and softball, roller hockey or lacrosse, reduced popularity of the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball or other professional or amateur leagues in sports in which our products are used, adverse publicity of athletes who use our products or the sports in which our products are used, inability to ensure third-party suppliers will meet quality and regulatory standards, reliance on third-party suppliers and manufacturers, disruption of distribution systems, loss of significant customers or suppliers, loss of key customers' business due to customer consolidation, losses resulting from customer insolvency events, change in the sales mix towards larger customers, cost of raw materials, shipping costs and other cost pressures, risks associated with doing business abroad, inability to expand into international market segments, inability to accurately forecast demand for products, inventory shrinkage, excess inventory due to inaccurate demand forecasts, product liability, warranty and recall claims, inability to successfully design products that satisfy testing protocols and standards established by testing and athletic governing bodies, inability to obtain and maintain necessary approvals in respect of products that may be considered medical devices, inability to successfully open and operate Own The Moment Hockey Experience retail stores, inability to successfully implement our strategic initiatives on anticipated timelines, including our profitability improvement initiative, risks associated with our third-party suppliers and manufacturers failing to manufacture products that comply with all applicable laws and regulations, inability to source merchandise profitably in the event new trade restrictions are imposed or existing trade restrictions become more burdensome, departure of senior executives or other key personnel with specialized market knowledge and technical skills, litigation, including certain class action lawsuits, employment or union-related disputes, disruption of information technology systems, including damages from computer viruses, unauthorized access, cyberattack and other security vulnerabilities, potential environmental liabilities, restrictive covenants in our credit facilities, increasing levels of indebtedness,  inability to generate sufficient cash to fund operations or service the Company's indebtedness, failure to make, integrate, and maintain new acquisitions, inability to realize growth opportunities or cost synergies that are anticipated to result from new acquisitions such as (i) the acquisition of exclusive and perpetual licensing rights in technology assets from Q30 Sports, LLC, (ii) the purchase of a non-controlling interest in Q30 Sports Science, LLC, and (iii) Easton Hockey, undisclosed liabilities acquired pursuant to recent acquisitions, volatility in the market price for our Common Shares, possibility that we will need additional capital in the future, incurrence of additional expenses as a result of the loss of our foreign private issuer status, assertion that the acquisition of the Bauer Hockey business at the time of the Canadian initial public offering of Common Shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange completed on March 10, 2011 was an inversion transaction, our current intention not to pay cash dividends, dependence on the performance of subsidiaries given our status as a holding company, potential inability of investors to enforce judgments against the Company and its directors, fluctuations in the value of certain foreign currencies, including the Canadian dollar, in relation to the U.S. dollar, and other world currencies, general adverse economic and market conditions, changes in government regulations, including tax laws and unanticipated tax liabilities and natural disasters and geo-political events, as well as the factors identified in the "Risk Factors" sections of the Company's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q dated April 14, 2016, which are available on EDGAR at www.sec.gov, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and on the Company's website at www.performancesportsgroup.com.

Furthermore, unless otherwise stated, the forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and we have no intention and undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

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