Hockey is very different than every other sport. The most glaring difference is its players need to wear skates instead of cleats or sneakers because it's played on ice. Because of this, the game is ...

The game of hockey has been around for more than 150 years, and many things have changed since those early days in Montreal, including the shape of the puck. The NHL season is officially over. The ...

Mother of Nasir Davis calls Andrew Podolak, 33, who averted a potential tragedy in Cleveland, Ohio, ‘a really special person’ An Ohio man who used his arm to deflect a hockey puck flying directly ...

Concussions from a bump on the head used to be no big deal. "People just kind of said 'oh, that athlete got his bell rung' and didn't think much of it," says Dr. James Eckner of the University of ...

It all usually happens in a blur. Before any NHL game, teams take to the ice for warmups, and as some 20 players from each side burst onto the rink, so too does a flurry of pucks that bounce and carom ...

DETROIT, MI - NOVEMBER 08: A picture in the penalty box of this years official game pucks NHL logo turns purple once frozen before the start of an NHL game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Boston ...

Hockey pucks: They're small and heavy and — one Michigan college thinks — may be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus. Oakland University, a public school in Rochester Hills, near ...

An off-the-cuff suggestion led to a Michigan university's drawing attention for implementing an unusual "last resort" measure to ward off possible mass shooting attacks. Local news outlets first ...