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It may make a mess of her now famous up-do, but this is one hockey mask Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will want to don. Brockville’s own Frank Cipra, who has designed more than 3,000 hockey masks for some of the NHL’s top goaltenders over his career, is the man behind the colourful “hockey mom” mask being presented to Palin at a rally this week. “I would have loved to hand it to her in person,” Cipra explained last week at his Cipra Designs office on Brockville’s waterfront while hatching the plan to get the mask to Palin. He ended...

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Two self described "hockey moms" launched a web site Tuesday called "Hockey Moms for McCain-Palin" to mobilize women in key battleground states to support the Republican ticket. Kellie Boyle, 46, of McLean, Virginia and her longtime friend Adrienne Cordova of Philadelphia, Pa., are the co-founders of http://www.hockeymomsformccain-palin.com/ -- a web site targeting women in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia and Ohio -- key battleground states. "Hockey moms are the new soccer moms," Boyle told ABCNews.com, "we're just moms who are excited about ticket who wanted to do something to support Sarah Palin to show that there is alot of support among middle-class...

Tyndale House has ordered a second printing of 100,000 copies for Sarah: How A Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down, which will bring the Tyndale trade paperback edition to 350,000 copies.

Gov. Sarah Palin's critics had better hope she doesn't sick America's newest brand of super hero on their heels. A group of women in Yuma say Palin is absolutely right, that no one has the same driven bark and protective bite as a hockey mom hustling to care for her brood. These ladies say they cheered Wednesday when the vice presidential candidate joked during the Republican National Convention that the only difference between hockey moms like herself and pit bulls is lipstick. "We're fierce, loyal and competitive, just as competitive as our kids," said Karen VanDeberg, whose son plays hockey...

For Janet Coviello of Bayonne, N.J., the quintessential hockey mom moment is the first time you watch your child get checked to the ice -- then pray he gets back up to seek revenge. To Elizabeth Miskovich, being a hockey mom in Grand Rapids, Minn., meant dragging three or four other kids to practice along with your own because their parents were too busy taking their other kids to other rinks. In Belmont, Mass., Kim Rocha says hockey motherhood means having the fortitude to slog through a 10-month season, far longer than most other youth sports. All shared a moment...

Consider the various cool terms vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin could have used in describing herself to Republican Party convention delegates Wednesday night: Moose-hunter. Political trailblazer. And the best one: former journalist. Instead, she settled with obvious pride on "just your average hockey mom." She then adorned that title with a joke on how you tell the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull. "Lipstick," she said to loud laughter in the arena. What, you might ask, is your average hockey mom? Is there such a thing? Are they any different from soccer moms or Little League moms?...