Joona Koppanen will usually stand out in just about any room he enters. At 6-foot-5, he is a hard fellow to miss. But even in ...

Regardless of NHLPA or CBA negotiations, the New Jersey Devils may be mandated by their general manager to wear neck guards.

Neck guards have become a major part of hockey in recent times, and now, wearing one has thankfully saved the life of a young hockey player. In recent times, we've seen some devastating and tragic ...

A Wyoming family is thankful for safety changes made by USA Hockey that required every player to wear a neck guard, following ...

“The doctors said if the neck guard wasn’t there, the skate would have gone to his jugular,” said Lein. “We’d be telling a very different story.” USA Hockey has been requiring neck ...

Roughly a year and a half since Adam Johnson died from a skate cut to the neck during a game in England, the topic was prominent on the second day of the NHL general managers meeting ...

Adam previously played 13 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins in North America's National Hockey League and within days of his death, coroner Tanyka Rawden called for neck guards to be made ...

Tom Fitzgerald and wife Kerry watched their son Casey’s American Hockey League ... the right side of his neck. He had been cut by a skate blade just above his neck guard and was bleeding when ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - FEBRUARY 17: Skates are seen with blade guards ... Hockey League game on a cellphone at a restaurant bar on Dec. 28 and saw him come out of the corner on an otherwise ...