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Originally Posted by troutman
MacInnis, Brett Hull etc could really shoot the puck, and I don't remember any serious injuries to goalies then.
There is only anecdotal evidence that the new sticks shoot the puck harder. The only academic research I could find so far, showed that wood sticks perform no worse than the new sticks (U of C).
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I remember AL winding up on a Canucks goalie (McLean?) and exploding his face mask, Brett Hull was more of a wrist shot guy, but even in the masked era his old man was regularly killing goalies.
One big change in goalie equipment in recent years was the outlawing of the spider man webbing on the chest protector between the torso and the arms. Loungo was a huge fan of that one.
But in the age of the lighter and smaller Kevlar bullet proof vests I'm amazed that the NHL hasn't looked into that material.
A bullet proof vest is smaller then a goalies chest guard.