Some changes have already occurred at Total Hockey stores as a result of the bankruptcy. The chain is no longer selling gift cards but it will honor gift cards that have already been purchased, an attorney for Total Hockey said at the hearing.

One of Total Hockey’s creditors, Exeter, N.H.-based Bauer Hockey, filed an objection this week to the sale. The company says it has a secured claim on $8.6 million in Bauer products that Total Hockey possesses. Attorneys for Total Hockey and Bauer said they’re in discussions to resolve the issue.

If the sale to Pure Hockey’s parent company proceeds, TSG will expand to markets including St. Louis where it doesn’t have a presence. Pure Hockey has 23 stores and another chain TSG owns, Hockey Giant, has nine stores.

“Total Hockey operated in a lot of important hockey markets that Pure Hockey doesn’t and we always had plans to enter those markets,” TSG’s co-owner and CEO David Nectow told the Post-Dispatch. The acquisition will double TSG’s store count to 64 stores.

No determination has been made yet whether to keep operating under the Total Hockey name, Nectow said in a phone interview. TSG plans to keep Total Hockey’s local administrative office open. “We will continue to maintain an office in St. Louis,” he said.