Question: What year did Nike Bauer purchase an ice hockey company?
Context: CCM, formerly an initialism for Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd., is a sporting goods brand.  The brand is held by two separate entities both maintaining the CCM trademark, one (The Hockey Company, now a subsidiary of Reebok) manufacturing ice hockey equipment and the other, CCM (cycle) manufacturing bicycles. David William Christian (born May 12, 1959) is a retired American professional ice hockey forward, who comes from a family of hockey players.  His father Bill and uncle Roger were members of the 1960 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team that won the gold medal.  Another uncle, Gordon, was a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team that won the silver medal.  Bill and Roger, along with Hal Bakke, were the founders of the Christian Brothers Hockey Company based in Warroad, which until 2009, made hockey sticks.  His nephew, Brock Nelson, currently plays for the New York Islanders. David Leslie Kelly (born September 20, 1952) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).  He played in 16 NHL games with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1976–77 season.  Now he works with hockey company CCM. The 1947–48 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season began in November 1947 and concluded with the 1948 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game on March 20, 1948 at the Broadmoor Ice Palace in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  This was the 1st season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 54th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.  In 1947 there were quasi-official guidelines separating major and minor football programs across the NCAA, but no such determinations had been made for ice hockey teams.  Even among the universities that played ice hockey, no such distinctions were even attempted until the mid-1960s.  While the Division I level of the NCAA would not be an official designation until 1973, it is referred to as such here for clarity and continuity. The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was the 16th Olympic Championship.  The Soviet Union – in their last Winter Olympics as a unified nation – won its seventh gold medal, surpassing Canada for most in Olympic ice hockey at that point.  The silver medal was won by Finland, marking its first ever Olympic ice hockey medal.  Sweden won the bronze medal.  Games were held in the Olympic Saddledome, the Stampede Corral, and Father David Bauer Olympic Arena. Bauer Hockey (renamed Nike Bauer from 2005 to 2008) is one of the leading manufacturers of ice hockey equipment, fitness and recreational skates and apparel.  Bauer produces helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, as well as goalie equipment.  Bauer primarily developed and manufactured hockey skates prior to 1990, when it acquired the hockey assets of Cooper Canada Ltd. Bauer operates as a unit of Peak Achievement Athletics Inc. of Exeter, New Hampshire. Koho is a brand of ice hockey equipment that originated from Finland.  Currently, Koho equipment is manufactured by The Hockey Company (parent company of CCM, now owned by Adidas).  Koho is especially known for its goaltending equipment.  The main endorsees, instrumental to marketing the brand throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, included Arturs Irbe, Patrick Roy, Félix Potvin, Jocelyn Thibault, Tommy Salo, Mathieu Garon, Jean-Sébastien Giguère and Roberto Luongo.  Although Koho had the support of high-profile endorsees such as Jaromír Jágr, the player equipment lines were comparatively unsuccessful.  The brand name is currently owned by MonkeySports, which operates GoalieMonkey.com and Hockeymonkey.com.  They are the exclusive retailer of the brand. The Canadian national men's ice hockey team (popularly known as Team Canada; French: "Équipe Canada" ) is the ice hockey team representing Canada internationally.  The team is overseen by Hockey Canada, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation.  From 1920 until 1963, Canada's international representation was by senior amateur club teams.  Canada's national men's team was founded in 1963 by Father David Bauer as a part of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, playing out of the University of British Columbia. Daniel B. McFall (born April 8, 1963 in Kenmore, New York and raised in Buffalo, New York) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played nine games in the National Hockey League.  He played for the Winnipeg Jets.  He now runs a hockey company out of Burlington, Vermont that organizes various leagues, clinics, and tournaments. Micron produced ice hockey equipment in the 1980s and were based in Canada.  The company was eventually purchased by Bauer Hockey in 1994.
Answer: 1994