He had been cut by a skate blade just above his neck guard and was bleeding when trainers rushed to him and got him into an ...

Numerous players around the NHL have voluntarily worn neck protection ... educating players about the usage of neck guards and other cut resistant protections. “If we can continue to educate ...

Now, in Wyoming, a neck guard has saved the life of an 11-year old hockey player, Carter Lein, who was cut to the neck while playing in a game in one of the scariest moments of his life for him ...

offered an impassioned stance of making neck guards mandatory among his peers. Fitzgerald’s appeal came after his son, Casey Fitzgerald, survived a cut to his neck while skating as a defenseman ...

Casey Fitzgerald was wearing a cut-resistant neck guard, which is mandated in the AHL, but the skate sliced him above the guard to the point where his father said that even if he had been wearing a ...

Cut-resistant neck, wrist and Achilles tendon protection that is now mandated ... materials as much a part of hockey as helmets and shin guards. “Does it go to a place like the visors went ...