William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog since 2012. Douglas joined NHL.com in 2019 and writes about people of color in the sport. Today, he profiles Julia Takatsuka, goaltending ...

Jackson Sizer has a standard pregame routine that resembles most ice hockey goalies. The Manheim Township netminder gets his ...

Today’s NHL goalies are specimens. Consider the Dallas Stars’ Jake Oettinger. He is a 6-foot-6, 224-pounder who moves like a cat. He competes for pucks. Oettinger uses hockey sense to read plays and ...

Cal Petersen held onto a simple childhood dream: He wanted to play for the Waterloo Black Hawks. He grew up in eastern Iowa, and he gravitated toward hockey – a sport often trumped by more popular ...

Hunter Dryden stands tall and confident in goal, his 6-foot-4, 185-pound frame filling up the net much like his Hall of Fame grandfather Ken Dryden did more than five decades before him. One carried ...

One player stands out amid a swarm of crimson helmets zipping up and down the ice. Not only are ice hockey fans mesmerized by the Harvard goalkeepers’ skills and ferocity at the net, but also by their ...

Known as “Mr. Goalie,” he created the so-called butterfly style and played in a record 502 consecutive games, without wearing ...