NHL goalies won't look as trim as expected this season because of delays to an ambitious redesign of their bulky equipment.
NHL officials at the general managers' meetings in March said the league and the NHL Players' Association were planning to introduce equipment more befitting of a goaltender's actual size this fall, perhaps even in time for the World Cup of Hockey.
Now it's appearing likely that only some pieces of new gear will be ready for the upcoming season. A complete overhaul isn't expected to be finished until the 2017-18 campaign.
"I wish no one said that we were going to have this ready for this season because I think that was an aggressive timeline to say that we would have that done," Mathieu Schneider of the Players' Association said in an interview with the Canadian Press.