Sports ❯ Hockey

Player Safety

Injuries Disciplinary Actions Suspensions Incidents Penalties Injury Prevention Concussions Violence in Sports Department of Player Safety Protective Equipment

NHL Probes Unlatched Penalty-Box Door After Lightning’s Pontus Holmberg Injured

The review spotlights rink procedures that require penalty-box doors to stay latched during play.

NHL Fines Panthers’ Eetu Luostarinen $5,000 for High-Sticking Penguins’ Rickard Rakell

NHL Suspends Panthers’ A.J. Greer Three Games for Boarding Flames’ Connor Zary

Maple Leafs Say Auston Matthews Undergoes MCL Repair With 12-Week Recovery

Parros Defends Five-Game Suspension for Gudas After Matthews’ Season-Ending Knee Injury

Maple Leafs Sign Artur Akhtyamov to Three-Year, $2.7 Million Extension

NHL Suspends Radko Gudas 5 Games After Knee-on-Knee Hit That Ends Auston Matthews’ Season

IIHF Rules Out Pavel Zacha for Olympics as Czechia Calls Up Filip Chlapik

NHL Fines Capitals’ Brandon Duhaime $2,500 for Bench Stick Contact With Kraken’s Jacob Melanson

NHL Suspends Penguins’ Bryan Rust Three Games for Illegal Check to Brock Boeser’s Head

PWHL Hands New York’s Taylor Girard a Four-Game Ban for Leaving Bench in Post-Buzzer Scrum

NHL and Players’ Union ‘Pleased’ With Milan Olympic Arena Test, Will Keep Monitoring

Flames’ John Beecher Gets One-Game Ban for Punching Predators’ Michael McCarron

PWHL Suspends Seattle’s Aneta Tejralová Two Games for Head Hit on New York’s Sarah Fillier

NHL Warns It Will Pull Players From 2026 Olympics If Milan Ice Fails Safety Tests

NHL Suspends Maple Leafs’ Bobby McMann One Game for High-Stick on Lightning’s Oliver Bjorkstrand

Milan Olympic Hockey Rink Behind Schedule; IIHF-Approved Ice Shorter Than NHL Standard

DEL2 Awards 5–0 Forfeit to Kassel After Weiden Plexiglass Failure

OHL Bans Brampton’s Luke Dragusica for Rest of 2025–26 After Head Slash

IIHF Makes Neck Guards Mandatory for 2026 Olympic Hockey