The NHL is making moves to try to increase scoring next season by shrinking the size of the goaltenders' equipment. Though we're less than two months away from the beginning of the 2013-14 campaign, ...

The NHL has mandated that goalies reduce their pads by about 10 percent for the 2013-14. On a goalie with a 20-inch upper leg pad, the pads can only go up to nine inches above the knee, which is two ...

Former Blackhawks goalie Glenn Hall is widely credited as the innovator of the butterfly position for goaltending. Hall, an instrumental member of the Blackhawks’ 1961 Stanley Cup championship team, ...

A year since hanging up his pads after tending goal for 14 seasons in the NHL, Howard was tickled by the differences in goalie equipment over that time. “Everything about equipment has changed,” he ...

This story originally appeared in the Sept. 30, 2013 issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. To subscribe, click here. On a Sunday in early September, Kay Whitmore helped his family in Sudbury, Ont., jar 13 ...

A man by the name of Bob Haskins was my coach, and he gave me the tape. I think I wore it out watching it so many times. My first real lesson from a true goalie instructor came from Cap Raeder at his ...