The latest narrative on the NHL’s scoring woes has centered once again on goalie equipment, but what’s important to note is that the NHL Players’ Association is in step with the league in the current effort to shrink the armor.
Which is not to suggest necessarily that the NHLPA wasn’t interested in goalie equipment before, it was, but the point here is that from the get-go this new effort has been a partnered approach.
Specifically, star netminder Cory Schneider has been part of the discussion via his membership on the NHL-NHLPA Competition Committee.
Schneider, with the support of the other players on the Competition Committee, has had a healthy dialogue with the NHL hockey operations department’s Kay Whitmore -- a.