The smell of rubber is everywhere as the ageing machine press coughs up a tray full of ice hockey pucks that will hit the Olympic ice in February. - 'A huge prestige' - To make a puck, rubber compound ...

LOWELL — Hockey pucks, frozen before games, are made of vulcanized rubber and weigh six ounces. And when travelling upward of 90 miles per hour, pucks can provide plenty of joy when they sail into ...

SEATTLE --As the last NHL goalie to play his position without a mask, the late Lorne "Gump" Worsley was a one-man test lab to prove out the physics of a hockey puck. "Gump played his final seasons ...