Does being a goalkeeper in ice hockey hurt a lot?

Sometimes. The padding usually does the job well, but there are certain areas that you always 'feel it' when the puck hits you there. The upper arms and elbow areas are usually where getting hit hurts regardless, but it has gotten better over the last decade with increase in protective equipment technology. read more

According to my son who spend his youth hockey years as a goalie, “It doesn’t hurt any more to be a goalie than it does to be a defenseman and block shots without think pads. You see far more injuries to other players than you do to goalies due to the nature of the game. read more

Being a goalie isn't worrying about the pain. It's about learning to resist the urge to"flinch" when a slapshot is flying at you and training yourself to react as if it's a fluffy pillow instead. If you're playing goalie and you're in the groove, all equipment issues aside, pain isn't an issue at all. read more

The trouble with traditional, touch icing, is that players have gotten hurt racing for the puck, trying to beat out a delayed icing call. So touch icing is going out of favor in ice hockey. Some leagues now use no-touch icing, where icing is called automatically the moment the puck crosses the goal line. read more