No wonder hockey has lagged behind other sports in demanding its helmets provide protection more nuanced than a cranial fracture, a brain hemorrhage or death. Researchers at Virginia Tech want to ...

While all team sports can be rough, hockey poses a particularly high risk of brain injuries. A new high-tech helmet is designed to warn of such injuries, by detecting and reporting on knocks to ...

Pat LaFontaine looks to make hockey a much safer game with his new helmet company, Valor. LaFontaine, left, is shown playing for the Sabres in a game against the Rangers in 1996.

Helmets are starting to be rated on star systems, so you may want to do some homework before you head to the store. Day did a fellowship at Virginia Tech, which publishes one of the rating systems.

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bauer Hockey, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of ice hockey equipment, today officially unveiled the BAUER RE-AKT helmet, the first hockey helmet ...

Hockey hits hit hard, so researchers at Virginia Tech are now figuring out how well the sport's helmets prevent concussion and using those data to develop a ratings system.

If you play NCAA D1 hockey, then you can get a helmet painted,’” Davidson said. “So, that was something I was really looking forward to.” ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have devised a five-star rating system for hockey helmet safety, and not one of the 32 helmets tested earned a five or even a four star rating, the team revealed this ...

And with me, they gave me a blue hockey helmet, and they thought they were getting jazzy by taking the top of the hockey helmet off, but it was blue. We wore red," he said.