He has worn black pads since his second year in the OHL, though he switched to white last season, his first in professional hockey. He wanted to wear black, but goalie coach Bob Essensa advocated ...

(CBS) Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford's preferred set of pads went missing Saturday after Chicago's win against Pittsburgh at Soldier Field, and he's miffed at how it happened.

Infatuation with pads is one of the main reasons many of the NHL’s best started playing goalie in the first place. They’re enthralled by the aesthetics. The personalized airbrushed masks.

Goalie Yaroslav Askarov got called up by the Nashville Predators. Before that, he made sure to get some time to relax, Russian style. ... his black goalie pads freshly removed.

Predators goalie Juuse Saros has white pads now, but has more gold pads on the way. ... Littered with black scuffs from all the pucks they'd absorbed, the pads had lost their cushion.

Swedish goalie Söderblom, 21, had multiple NHL teams interested in him, according to his agent. NFL. NBA. MLB. NHL. NCAAF. ... tracking it all the way into the pads,” Söderblom said.

I just want my goalie pads.” Fuhr, the only Black goalie to win the Stanley Cup five times -- with the Edmonton Oilers (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990) -- loved the bit.

Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford said Friday he doesn't think the recent proposal to shrink the goalie's equipment would make the NHL any more exciting.

Ironman goalie Glenn Hall had just pulled himself from the Black Hawks' Nov. 7, 1962 game against the Boston Bruins, unable to continue beyond 10:21 of the first period with a badly pinched nerve ...

Akira Schmid sat on a bus in Cleveland, Ohio, his goalie pads packed tightly near a large black bag several feet below him, as he and his Utica Comets teammates awaited the commute to practice.