The long-standing link between Halloween, horror movies and goalie masks goes well beyond the iconic example of Jason Voorhees wearing one in the "Friday the 13th" films. Gerry Cheevers is credited as ...

Ever since Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Jacques Plante, in 1959, became the first NHL goaltender to permanently don a face mask and the use of masks went from a curiosity piece to a necessity over ...

Hockey and art, heritage and politics have come together in the form of one goalie’s mask now on display at the Minnesota History Center. On Tuesday, Redhorse Taylor stood next to the display, wearing ...

Unless you arrive at the Canadian Tire Centre from the south end of the city limits, it is impossible not to notice the massive advertisement adorning the northeast side of the arena. Linus Ullmark's ...

Olympic uniforms are usually strictly enforced from athlete to athlete, each one an exact copy of the next, indistinguishable from the bunch. Except for Olympic hockey goaltenders, who get to design ...

Dear Mr. Sportsknowitall: What year did goalies in hockey start wearing protective masks? If a goalie went without a mask today he would suffer catastrophic injuries. How did goalies in the past go ...

Nashville Predators goaltender Juuse Saros will wear a custom mask against the Colorado Avalanche on Nov. 22 for Hockey ...

Puck Pioneers is a three-part series on women's and girls' hockey in Iowa. The first two parts of the series will profile three Iowans who each fell in love with hockey despite a different path to the ...

So, who are those masked men? The Sharks' fortunes this season might very well depend on new Finnish goaltenders Antero Niittymaki and Antti Niemi. Yet most fans probably couldn't pick either one out ...

One player stands out amid a swarm of crimson helmets zipping up and down the ice. Not only are ice hockey fans mesmerized by the Harvard goalkeepers’ skills and ferocity at the net, but also by their ...