from Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province,
This will tell you all you need to know about the NHL’s interminable squabbling over goalies and their equipment.
Almost a year ago, the NHL pledged to finally wrestle this problem to the ground. To that end, they identified the goaltenders’ pants and their chest and arm protectors as their chief areas of concern, targeting the the pants first because that was, “the low-hanging fruit,” according to NHL goalie supervisor Kay Whitmore.
The new streamlined pants were supposed to be in place at the start of the season. Last week the NHL issued a statement that all goalies will have to be wearing the new gear by Feb. 4.
Six months after the fact, there’s finally a solution in place for the “easy” problem. The chest and arm protectors? Now, that’s the tough one.
“There are,” Whitmore says, “a lot of moving part there.”
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