Il est généralement reconnu que le choix d’un patin à glace dépend principalement du confort et de la performance conféré par le patin. Ce processus de sélection amène l’entreprise Reebok-CCM Hockey à concevoir des patins plus confortables, et donc, mieux adaptés à la morphologie de l’athlète, ce qui représente un défi de taille. En effet, […]

The main concern for helmet performance is the reduction of skull and brain injury risk during impact events. Combinations of shell materials, foams, and three-dimensional engineered structures are used to design hockey helmets. Using current helmet evaluation techniques, the contributions of each of these components cannot be directly assessed. In the proposed work, high-speed X-ray […]

Upper body injuries make up 32% of the injuries that ice hockey goaltenders have in a season. These values may be subject to change, as the National Hockey League is investigating rule changes that will decrease the size of the goaltender’s chest and arm equipment. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the […]