Happy 50th For Hockey's Goalie Mask 1959-2009
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In The Washington Post today an article on the 50 Anniversary of hockey's goalie mask......Letting Cool Heads Prevail Hockey Masks Offer Goalies a Canvas as Well as Safety
Being a former goalie this slipped by me that it has been 50 years since goalies once never wore a mask for protection. My favorite goalie back in the day was of course Gerry Cheevers of the BRUINS, (one of the first to decorate his mask with a stitch for each time he was hit), Eddie Giacomin of the Rangers and Tony Esposito of the Blackhawks.
Peace
Being a former goalie this slipped by me that it has been 50 years since goalies once never wore a mask for protection. My favorite goalie back in the day was of course Gerry Cheevers of the BRUINS, (one of the first to decorate his mask with a stitch for each time he was hit), Eddie Giacomin of the Rangers and Tony Esposito of the Blackhawks.
The first guy to do it, Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens, was laughed at. "They called him a chicken," Hynes said.
"He was the only smart guy," said Eddie Johnston, a senior adviser to the Penguins and, as a Boston Bruin, one of the last NHL goalies to play without a mask. His nose was broken six or seven times before a puck smashed into his head, and he spent six weeks in a coma. Then-goalie "Glenn Hall came to see me in the hospital, and he put a mask on the next day," he said. When he recovered, Johnston wore one, too.
Peace
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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His last season was 1973-74 with Pittsburgh.
At least Bobby Hull was in the WHA by then.
Speaking of Hull,I remember seeing Gump Worsley take a Bobby Hull slapshot in the face without a mask on.
The puck was flipping end over end and hit him flat.
Probably saved his life.
is that exactly what I thought I read."
As a youngster I thought he was dead, the action still didn't stop me from wanting to be a goalie.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)