Question: Patrick Roy endorses the Koho brand which is especially known for what type of hockey equipment?
Context: Cameron Kenneth Ward (born February 29, 1984) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL).  Ward was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and in the Edmonton suburb of Sherwood Park, Alberta.  During his three-year junior career in the Western Hockey League (WHL), he was selected 25th overall by the Hurricanes in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.  After a season with the Hurricanes' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lowell Lock Monsters, he won the Stanley Cup with the Hurricanes in 2006.  He became the first starting goaltender to win the NHL championship as a rookie since Patrick Roy in 1986. STX (a contraction of the word "sticks" but commonly called "S-T-X") is a global sports equipment manufacturer based in Baltimore, Maryland.  It is a subsidiary of Wm. T. Burnett & Co.  STX makes lacrosse equipment, field hockey equipment and ice hockey equipment, but its main business is in manufacturing of men's and women's lacrosse sticks and protective gear, including gloves, pads, and women's eyewear.  The company was founded in 1970 by Richard B.C. Tucker, Sr. as STX Inc.  STX's first stick was the double wall, synthetic lacrosse head (U.S. Pat.  #3,507,495), which was the first synthetic stick and the only type used to score goals in the first NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship (1971). Fischer Sports is an Austrian company that produces Nordic Skiing, Alpine Skiing and Hockey equipment.  It is one of the largest manufacturers of equipment in the world cup for both Nordic and Alpine skiing disciplines and manufactures a wide range of skis and ski equipment targeted against both professionals and amateurs.  Fischer has achieved innovative success in both Alpine and Nordic in the last three World Championships as well as at the Olympic Games. Cooper Canada Ltd. was a sporting goods and fine leather goods manufacturer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  In its heyday, the 1960s through to the 1980s, the company was Canada's leading producer of leather baseball gloves and protective ice hockey equipment.  The company pioneered team-colored hockey equipment and the use of nylon, foam, and modern plastics in equipment manufacturing. Koho is a brand of ice hockey equipment that originated from Finland.  Currently, Koho equipment is manufactured by The Hockey Company (parent company of CCM, now owned by Adidas).  Koho is especially known for its goaltending equipment.  The main endorsees, instrumental to marketing the brand throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, included Arturs Irbe, Patrick Roy, Félix Potvin, Jocelyn Thibault, Tommy Salo, Mathieu Garon, Jean-Sébastien Giguère and Roberto Luongo.  Although Koho had the support of high-profile endorsees such as Jaromír Jágr, the player equipment lines were comparatively unsuccessful.  The brand name is currently owned by MonkeySports, which operates GoalieMonkey.com and Hockeymonkey.com.  They are the exclusive retailer of the brand. Patrick Jacques Roy (] ; born October 5, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and the former head coach and vice-president of hockey operations for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).  He is regarded as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time.  On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Roy was part of the second group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.  Patrick is the brother of Stéphane Roy. Bauer Hockey (renamed Nike Bauer from 2005 to 2008) is one of the leading manufacturers of ice hockey equipment, fitness and recreational skates and apparel.  Bauer produces helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, as well as goalie equipment.  Bauer primarily developed and manufactured hockey skates prior to 1990, when it acquired the hockey assets of Cooper Canada Ltd. Bauer operates as a unit of Peak Achievement Athletics Inc. of Exeter, New Hampshire. Jonathan Roy (born 1989) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter.  Son of hockey great Patrick Roy, Jonathan initially pursued hockey in junior leagues, but abandoned that path in favour of music while still a teenager.  Having previously released three albums, his major-label debut, "Mr. Optimist Blues", was released in 2017, and includes several songs written by 1980s pop star Corey Hart. CCM, formerly an initialism for Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd., is a sporting goods brand.  The brand is held by two separate entities both maintaining the CCM trademark, one (The Hockey Company, now a subsidiary of Reebok) manufacturing ice hockey equipment and the other, CCM (cycle) manufacturing bicycles. Kookaburra is an Australian sports equipment company, specialising in cricket and field hockey equipment, named after the Australian kingfisher.  The company notably manufactures the most widely used brand of ball used in One-day internationals and Test cricket.
Answer: goaltending equipment