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 ...

An 11-year-old Wyoming boy narrowly escaped death after taking a skate to the neck during a hockey game Sunday.

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 ...

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

Whether on the ice or in the street, hockey is a fast-paced and thrilling sport. However, player-to-player contact coupled with fast-moving sticks and pucks make hockey a sport with many high-risk ...

Johnson died following a fatal cut to the neck from a skate blade during a game ... popular hockey league. NHL general managers are joined at the GM Meetings where the topic of neck guard mandates ...

Calls from the U.S. to Roustan Hockey headquarters in Canada in recent weeks have been anything but routine, as bulk orders ...

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 ...

An 11-year-old hockey player ... skate struck his neck during a game, his life only spared by a newly implemented safety rule. Carter Lein, 11, was playing defense on the ice for the Oilers ...

(AP) — Tom Fitzgerald and wife Kerry watched their son Casey's American Hockey League game on ... side of his neck. He had been cut by a skate blade just above his neck guard and was bleeding ...