page_title: Goaltender (box lacrosse)
section_title: Helmets
hierarchical_section_title: Goaltender (box lacrosse) / Equipment / Helmets
caption_attribution_description: English: These images of Ontario Junior B Lacrosse Action action during the 2014 season are taken by Devan Mighton. https://www.facebook.com/devanssportspics
context_page_description: The goaltender or goalie is a playing position in indoor or box lacrosse. More heavily armoured than a field lacrosse goaltender, since the invent of indoor lacrosse in 1931, the box lacrosse goalie has evolved into a much different position than its field lacrosse cousin.
context_section_description: Box goalies wear two different types of helmets.  One type is the standard field lacrosse helmet, the other is the ice hockey mask.  Field masks have strongly reinforced face masks, thick like the bars on a football helmet and also offer a wider range of vision than a hockey mask.  Field helmets do little to protect the throat region.  Hockey mask padding can be formed to the users head for comfort.  Are very easy to remove quickly and are molded especially for shock absorption.  Also, despite cutting down the range of vision of the user, actively protects the throat area from straight on shots.  In recent years, baseball catcher-style masks have been offered as a medium between the two helmet types.
  At the minor level, most goalies have to wear throat guards or "cow catchers" that attach to the helmet to provide additional coverage for the throat and neck area.
caption: London Blue Devils Jr. B goalie wearing hockey-style helmet (2014).
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