Check Your CCM HVR Visor and Claim a Replacement

Stop using a CCM visor immediately if it is an affected FMHVR Hybrid Visor or ACCHVR Replacement Visor Accessory. Recalled units may develop small fissures near the screw holes and crack under a hard impact. In the United States, the remedy is a free replacement—not continued use while checking periodically for visible damage.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on August 20, 2026. It covers about 12,957 units. No incidents or injuries had been reported at the time of the announcement, but the instruction is still to stop using an affected product immediately. The complete remedy and product photographs appear in the CPSC recall notice.

Choose the product type and serial prefix you see; the result shows whether the published recall criteria match.

The Recall Covers Two HVR Products

The recall is limited to two named products: the FMHVR hybrid visor-and-cage assembly and the separate ACCHVR replacement visor accessory. Each has a different identifying serial-number prefix.

For the FMHVR, the relevant prefixes are M/L and S/M. For the ACCHVR replacement visor, the relevant prefix is SR. A similar-looking CCM face protector without these identifying details is not established as recalled by this notice.

That distinction matters when checking equipment assembled from separate parts. The model name and serial prefix must be matched to the correct product. Finding “SR” on an ACCHVR is the published criterion for that accessory; finding “M/L” or “S/M” is the criterion for the FMHVR assembly.

CCM says the affected products were sold online and through retailers from May 2024 through April 2026. That sales window can support the identification process, but it does not replace checking the product itself. A purchase within those dates is not, by itself, proof that a visor is recalled. Conversely, an uncertain purchase date does not clear a visor whose model and marking match.

Check the Markings While Looking Through the Visor

Orient the product as though you were wearing it and looking through the clear section. The published right-side locations are described from that viewpoint. Turning the visor around can put the marking on the apparent opposite side and make it easy to inspect the wrong area.

FMHVR Hybrid Visor And Cage

The FMHVR combines a clear polycarbonate upper section with a metal cage below it. It matches the recall identification when both of these details are present:

• “HVR” appears at the top of the metal plate on the right side, above the red CCM logo.
• The serial number begins with “M/L” or “S/M.”

Check the beginning of the serial number rather than looking for those letters anywhere within a longer marking. The prefix is the identifying part specified in the recall.

Do not rely on the general appearance of the clear visor and cage. CCM makes other protective equipment, and the recall notice identifies this assembly through its HVR plate marking and serial prefix. If one detail is missing or unreadable, treat the identity as unresolved rather than guessing from the shape.

ACCHVR Replacement Visor

The ACCHVR is the separate replacement visor accessory rather than the complete hybrid visor-and-cage assembly. It matches the published criterion when its serial number begins with “SR.”

The number is engraved into the polycarbonate near the top-right corner when you are looking through the visor. Engraving can be less conspicuous than a printed label, so inspect that location directly under clear light. Do not substitute a package number, receipt number or marking from another component.

CCM’s recall information confirms the model and prefix checks. If the engraving cannot be found or read, compare the product with the official photographs in the CPSC notice or take it to a participating CCM retailer. An unreadable number is an unresolved check, not evidence that the product is unaffected.

Stop Using a Matching Or Unresolved Visor

A visor that matches the model and serial-prefix criteria should be removed from the helmet and kept out of service. Do not wear it for a game, practice or stick-and-puck session while waiting for the claim to be processed.

The same caution is appropriate when the product appears to be one of the named models but its identifying number cannot be read. CCM’s claim form accounts for this situation: it says the serial-number field may be left blank if the number cannot be found. That allows the manufacturer or retailer to resolve the identification without requiring another use of the visor.

For a U.S. claim, the process is:

1. Remove the product from service. Do not test it with another skate or impact.
2. Submit CCM’s product recall form. It requests purchase and contact details, while allowing the serial-number field to remain blank if necessary.
3. Keep the confirmation number. CCM says it will email that number along with further instructions.
4. Return the recalled product as directed. The CPSC says owners can take it to a participating retailer for a free replacement. Owners without access to a participating retailer can contact CCM for a prepaid return envelope.

Keep the visor intact while the claim is pending unless CCM or the retailer instructs otherwise. Altering or discarding it before receiving return directions could remove the markings needed to identify the product.

U.S. Owners Receive Replacement Equipment

According to the CPSC notice, the U.S. replacement choices are an FV1 full visor, FM780 combo cage or FM580 combo cage. The notice describes a free replacement rather than a repair of the recalled visor.

Those options are different forms of face protection, so the replacement may not duplicate the recalled product’s construction. The listed choices are nevertheless the remedies specified in the U.S. notice. Availability and processing instructions should come from CCM or the participating retailer handling the return.

The recalled products were sold at Monkey Sports, Play It Again Sports, Pure Hockey, independent sporting-goods stores and CCM’s website. Their original retail prices were about $120 for the hybrid visor and $55 for the replacement visor accessory. Those figures describe the approximate original retail prices in the CPSC notice; they do not change the stated free-replacement remedy.

HockeyMonkey lists a separate option for its customers. A customer can return the recalled product with a prepaid label and receive a digital gift card equal to the original purchase price. That is the retailer’s program, while a claim submitted directly through CCM provides replacement equipment. The retailer’s instructions are on its recalls page.

Choose one return route and follow the instructions supplied for that route. Sending the same product into overlapping retailer and manufacturer processes can leave neither party with the item required to complete its remedy.

Small Fissures Can Concentrate Impact Stress

CCM says micro-fissures may develop around the screw holes behind the assembly plates. Under a high impact, that area can crack. The concern is therefore tied to a loaded mounting region, not merely to cosmetic visibility through the main viewing area.

A screw hole changes how force travels through a polycarbonate sheet. In an uninterrupted section, load can spread through material in multiple directions. At a hole, the material cannot carry load through the empty center, so the load path bends around the opening. Stress becomes higher near the hole’s edge than it is farther away in the continuous sheet.

The screw and assembly plate also transfer force between the visor and the rest of the protector. That makes the area structurally significant even though it occupies only a small part of the visor. A fissure near the hole sharpens the local discontinuity and gives a crack a starting point from which to grow.

This is why the visible size of a flaw is not a reliable measure of its importance. A tiny fissure in a highly stressed mounting area can matter more than a larger superficial mark elsewhere. The recall does not say that every marked visor will break, and an ordinary scratch does not prove that the recalled failure is present. It says the affected products can develop fissures around the screw holes and crack under high impact.

Laboratory research on notched polycarbonate likewise finds that notches reduce impact resistance through stress concentration and can move the material toward brittle fracture. The study concerns notched polycarbonate specimens rather than these specific CCM visor models, so it explains the material mechanism rather than establishing the recall scope or predicting whether an individual visor will fail. The research is available in the journal Polymers.

A puck, stick or collision can deliver the type of hard impact the protector is supposed to manage. The problem identified by the recall is that the mounting area may instead become the starting point for a crack. Checking whether a fissure is visible cannot reproduce or rule out what will happen under that impact.

Home Repairs Do Not Provide The Recall Remedy

Do not try to address the problem by loosening screws, adding washers, applying glue or replacing the mounting hardware. Those changes do not establish that the affected polycarbonate has recovered its intended impact behavior.

Loosening hardware also changes how the visor is secured, while adding a washer changes the contact and load-transfer conditions around the hole. Glue may obscure the area without demonstrating that a fissure has stopped growing under impact. None of these modifications is the remedy stated by CCM or the CPSC.

The official response is replacement of the recalled protector. A visor that looks undamaged still qualifies when its model and serial marking match the recall criteria. Visible condition is not an alternative screening test supplied by the notices.

Canadian Owners Should Use The Canadian Recall Process

Health Canada issued a corresponding recall for the FMHVR hybrid visor and ACCHVR replacement visor accessory. Its notice lists part numbers 5490135, 5490136, 5490137 and 5490095. Canadian owners can use those part numbers along with the product markings when identifying equipment covered by that notice.

Health Canada directs consumers to stop using an affected product and contact Sport Maska Inc. (CCM) for a replacement full-face protector. As of July 17, 2026, no incidents or injuries had been reported in Canada. Those figures and instructions apply to the Canadian recall described in the Health Canada notice.

The Canadian notice should be used for a Canadian claim rather than assuming every detail of the U.S. replacement list or retailer process carries across the border. Both notices direct owners to stop using the affected products, but the stated replacement channels and descriptions are jurisdiction-specific.

Canadian law prohibits reselling or giving away a recalled consumer product. An affected visor should therefore go through the recall process rather than being placed in a used-equipment bin, sold with a helmet or passed to another player. Keeping it out of circulation is part of removing it from service.