EVELETH, Minn. (AP) — There’s talk in Eveleth of moving a giant hockey stick that’s currently a part of downtown to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Museum nearby.
Some members of the City Council are questioning how much business and tourism the 110-foot, 5-ton stick has brought the town.
Council member Tom Kallevig says more people would stop to see the stick if it were visible from the highway. The Hockey Hall of Fame is also next to the highway, so Kallevig says the stick might encourage them to visit the museum.
The attraction billed as the ‘‘world’s largest free-standing hockey stick’’ was placed in downtown Eveleth in 2002.