A tragic hockey accident in October reinvigorated conversations about whether hockey players should wear neck guards. In the coming months, both the NCAA and the NHL will discuss whether to mandate ...

A Wyoming boy narrowly escaped death after taking a skate to the neck during a hockey game. Carter Lein, 11, was playing defense in his team’s final game of the season when he accidentally tripped an ...

USA Hockey is mandating neck laceration protection for all players under the age of 18, the latest development in the wake of the death of a player in England from a skate to the neck that has ...

Neck guards are a small piece of hockey equipment that aren’t always widely used, but they’re very effective when it comes to player safety. And neck guards have become a topic of discussion from the ...

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