Like many of his peers on this list, Snepsts feels that mandatory helmets, followed by the increase of visors, made hockey less safe. “When I first started in the NHL, nobody really carried ...

Methods: Impact tests were conducted on a selection of helmet models: five cricket, two baseball, and two ice hockey. Ball to helmet impacts at speeds of 19, 27, 36, and 45 m/s were produced using an ...

Objective In 1979, the National Hockey League (NHL) announced that helmets would become mandatory for incoming players. The objective of this study is to evaluate, whether the mandatory use of helmets ...