Instead, they were dressed to the nines for a 500-foot walk — about two and a half hockey rinks — from the back door of the hotel to the player entrance at Nassau Coliseum for the morning skate.

It's up to hockey players to decide if they want to use the brightly colored tape, the NHL now says. The move comes days after an Arizona Coyotes player flouted the league's controversial ban.

USA Hockey announced Sunday it will require the use of neck laceration protection for all junior hockey players beginning August 1 – a decision coming three months after a player died from a ...

Hockey players' chances of developing concussion-related brain injury increase with every year they spend on the ice, a new study finds. The odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE ...