Hockey goalies are the rare athletes in team sports who can project personality through their choice of gear. That's no different ... for the Beijing Olympics women's hockey tournament.

Any equipment you wear for luck ... and I always take exactly the same number of reps in pre-game warm ups. Favourite goalie when you were a kid: My idol was Andreas Hadelöv, who played for ...

Any game day superstitions? I always do the same warm up, put my gear on the same way and have a handshake with my teammate Nellie [Svensson]. Favorite goalie when you were a child? Henrik Lundqvist ...

That was until 9-year-old Nicole Hensley, whom Pike recruited to play with him and other boys in games in the neighborhood cul-de-sac, put on her goalie gear and ... in women’s hockey history.

Devan Dubnyk had to return his; he wears CCM but was mistakenly sent a pair from a different company by the NHL's clearing house, which inspects and measures all goalie equipment. "The pants were ...

Vacca wasn’t the only player in goalie gear to score that night — every goal-scorer, and every player to take the ice for that matter, was a goaltender. “It was kind of non-stop hilarity and ...