The Odd History of Goalie Masks

in this video we're going to be taking a look at the history of goalie masks and showcase some of the most unique designs and while it's hard to talk about goalie masks without talking about paint jobs that won't be the focus of this video we're going to be looking at the gear itself and show the spectrum of gear and if you love goalie gear and goalie masks be sure to check out the sport antic T-shirt shop for some incredible designs based off of your favorite goalie masks there's no better place to start this video than from the beginning in the early days of hockey goalie started off like any other skater on the ice without special equipment the goals of early Hockey didn't even have netting on them as the sport became more and more popular the game got more serious goalies began wearing specialized equipment like cricket-like pads for the legs and gloves with extra padding but most serious players didn't see protective gear for the face to be as important early on the very first documented case of a goalie wearing facial protection that I could find was from 1899 in this year we could see that front Knack goalie Edgar his Co or a baseball catcher mask to protect his nose that was broken in an earlier game in the same year we see that goalie Everett Marshall also wore a baseball catchers mask in a game in 1899 Everett Marshall was using a baseball mask to protect his eye as he already lost an eye in a previous game due to a stick hitting him in the face despite these risks most goalies of the time did not wear any facial protection facial protection was not at the top of people's minds since there were not a lot of rising shots being taken so while many goalies playing hockey probably didn't feel the need to wear facial protection at this time there are documented examples of early goalies wearing the baseball catcher mask in games just take a look at some of these documented examples despite all these earlier examples goalie Elizabeth Graham is often credited as being the first goalie to wear a mask when she put on a fencing mask playing for the Queens University women's hockey team in 1927 primarily to protect her teeth we really don't know what her fencing mask looked like but here's an example of one made in the 1920s in competitive hockey coaches didn't want their goalies to wear anything that would block their goalie's vision and would consider any goalie that wanted to wear a mask to be lacking Courage the next well-documented case of a goalie wearing a mask happened in 1930 goalie Clint Benedict who was known for often dropping down to the ice to make saves took several shots to the Head including one from hoe Mor that broke his nose cheekbone and knocked him unconscious when he came back 6 weeks later he was wearing the NHL's first goalie mask what looked to be primarily a football face guard with stra to his face Benedict wore the mask for maybe five more games but blamed the mask for blocking his vision at the end of the same season howi morance took a shot that hit Benedict in the throat which essentially ended his career and the mask was not seen again in the NHL for many decades to come outside of the NHL there were a few goalies here and there that experimented with different types of masks in 1915 Boston AA go tender Ali Chadwick was known to wear some sort of eye coverings while playing from this newspaper caricature we can see that the goggles that he wore looked like they could have been Aviator goggles from the time another type of mask that was used during this time was a wire mask similar to a catcher mask that protected just the eyes some of these were marketed as field lacrosse eye protectors and some companies advertised them as glasses protectors in 1920 the goalie for the exitor Academy Bill cantelon were this type of wire protector that covered his eyes and also what looks to be a pair of eyeglasses that he seems to be wearing in 1921 Princeton gender and team captain G Maxwell also wore a wref protector that covered just his eyes but he wasn't the only one on his team wearing this type of mask his teammate defenseman ew Gould also wore the eye protection mask in 1930 we see Roy Musgrove wearing the wire face protector while playing for the University of Manitoba in the Winnipeg Junior League then again in the late 30s when in England playing in the British league for the Wembley lions in the 1932 Olympics Team USA goalie Franklin Ferrell wore the eye protection mask he played all six games for Team USA that year which won the silver medal after being bested by team Canada for the gold one of the more widely documented examples of a goalie wearing a mask came in 1936 during the Olympics when Japanese goalie taii hamna wore a special mask similar to a baseball catcher mask the mask had round eye Loops that match the shape of his eyeglasses that he wore while playing in the late 1940s a Buie named Don Wiston who played for the Brown University Bears took a puck to the mouth which pushed his teeth out of alignment after team doctor george Edward crane wired his teeth back into place he began to look for a way to protect his face without blocking his vision what he found was a company that made football face masks out of many different materials including Plastics so the doctor Drew up and sent in a mask design and was sent back a plastic face guard that covered the cheeks nose mouth and Chin but left his eyes unobstructed just as the the doctor had designed Wiston became the first Collegiate goalie to wear a mask and helped him to win MVP honors in 1951 in the NHL goalies were still not wearing masks in games however it was a little known secret that the goalies of the time were wearing masks in practice and had been doing so for a while while many coaches didn't want their goalies to wear anything that could potentially block their Vision in a game most were okay with a mask in practice one of the masks that was used in practice was the Louch mask known as the heads saer or face protector the mask was a clear plastic shield with padding and somewhat resembled the welders mask but with slots cut out for breathing it came in several configurations and was used by multiple NHL goalies in practice here we can see Johnny Bower wearing the mask in 1956 here we can see Glenn Hall with the mask and even jacqu plant had a version of the mask that he heavily modified with eyeh holes and extra padding but the first goalie mask didn't see game action until November of 1959 when Canadians golender jacqu plant was hit in the face from a puck off the Stick of Rangers player Andy Bathgate plant was taken into the locker room for stitches and refused to come back on the ice without the mask he had been using in practice lately the mask was a fiberglass mask made custom by bill burchmore from a mold of jock plant's face the mask weighed just under a pound and was 316 of an inch thick plant's coach toe Blake reluctantly agreed to let him play in the game with the mask plant went undefeated for his next 18 games and proved that the protection and confidence that the mask provide outweigh any Vision issues in 1962 another NHL star began wearing a mask but this time it wasn't a goalie insisting on wearing a mask but management insisting that their goalie wear one Detroit Red Wings manager Jack Adams was tired of seeing his star goalie Terry Sawchuk get injured so the Red Wings provided Sawchuk with a mask that was originally made for minor League Prospect Dennis rigan by Red Wings trainer Lefty Wilson to wear in games after sawchuck began wearing the mask it finally started to become a Mainstay in the hockey world so the cloud around the goalie mask began to lift with goalie mask being such a New Concept the services of Bill bmore who made plant's mask and Lefty Wilson who made sawchuk's mask were in high demand soon after making plant's original mask bmore changed his technique and was no longer using sheets of fiber glass to make mask but was Now using fiberglass yarn which was easier to Contour to the face and allowed them to make protective masks that were lighter and allowed for more air flow this style of mask began to be known as the pretzel mask for its likeness to a large pretzel plant even began to wear the new pretzel mask but the mask made by Lefty Wilson and other mask makers that started to pop up were mostly using masks with sheets of fiberglass and just cut holes out for vision and air circulation one of the unique mask that came out from this time was a mask that was part pretzel mask and part standard mask which was made for Ken Dryden by bmore while he was a goalie for Cornell University several years later Dryden brought back this mask for some games in the NHL with the Canadians as the man Rose for new custom mask to be made more people tried their hand at mask making including former plumber Ernie Higgins who made his first mask for his goal tending son Neil Ernie higgins's biggest contribution to the art of mask making was making the mask grounder to cover more of the face which not only protected the face more but also stopped the masks from moving around as much which were problems for the early pretzel masks and the earlier flatter Lefty Wilson masks by the early '70s most The Masks being ordered in the NHL were the newer rounder masks that covered more of the face from Ernie Higgins however the landscape for facial protection was far from settled during this time goalies that did wear masks could choose to wear a simple fiberglass mask a pretzel style mask a mask that combined these two styles of mask the larger round or Higgins mask and at this time there were still goalies that didn't wear a mask at all while in North America protection came down to a Player's Choice many International leagues and tournaments passed rules that required every player to wear either a helmet or a mask this led to some bizarre options being worn in international tournaments in 1971 Swedish golender CT lson chose to wear just a helmet rather than opt for a goalie mask as you can imagine this left him quite vulnerable in 1972 Kurt opted to add a Barely There mask to go with his helmet and as you can see it didn't offer much protection and a shot to the face would be dangerous though it's better than nothing also in 1972 North Americans got a chance to see vladislav treak wear his helmet cage combination and with great results take a look at this Cooper catalog from 1972 they tried to sell a little bit of everything to amateur goalies in 1973 we started to see more styles of helmet and cage combinations get used internationally but these early helmet cage combinations were not without flaws many of the helmets of the time use soft Plastics and most cages did not offer any protection to the ears while the vision and airf flow may be nice the security of a full fiberglass mask was tried and true by 1975 however treak wore a helmet cage combination that was well ahead of its time he wore a Cooper SK 600 which used a heavier Duty plastic than most helmets of the time that aimed to be comfortable and lightweight and paired it with a Cooper hm30 cage which was a wire cage with a cat ey design that offered great vision but still would not let a puck through the mask the hm30 also extended back to the ears and provided protection there as well during the mid 70s we did see a few other interesting goalie setups get experimented with including combining a full goalie mask with a hockey helmet but for the next five or so years it would still be the fiberglass mask that was the choice for most elite goalies in the NHL even CT Larson the Swedish goalie that played with just a helmet switched to a full fiberglass mask when he moved to play professional hockey in North America fiberglass masks also made a jump in their quality during this time not only did The Masks Now cover more of the face and wrap around better but they also started to incorporate strategically placed ridges that would deflect the Puck's energy instead of taking the full brunt of a Puck's Force mask making also became a big business and mask began to be mass-produced shock plant the original maske wearing NHL goalie himself got into the business of selling goalie masks on a mass scale with fibos sport fibro sport alone was cranking out 8,000 masks a year other mask makers like Michelle leev added new Innovations like long extensions to protect the neck area as well but it wasn't just mask makers making big Innovations to the goalie mask the goalies themselves left their marks on their masks as well the first goalie to wear a mask that had been custom decorated ated was Bruins goalie Jerry chers one day in practice after taking a shot up high chers pretended to be hurt from the shot so he could get out of practice he lift the ice and entered the locker room to relax The Story Goes that Bruin's coach Harry cinden came in and saw chers relaxing with a cigarette while looking over the horse racing odds and immediately forced him back on the ice the rest of the Bruins team got a big laugh out of the fact that chever had gotten caught for added laughs Bruin's trainer Frosty Foresta Drew on a 10-stitch wound in the area that the soft shot had hit chever in practice from that day on chever added a stitch to his mask anytime he took a shot up high and you can see over time the number of stitches increased throughout his career Doug favell experimented with several simple paint jobs for his masks in the 70s but the first intricate custom paint job design in the NHL was another accident when penguin's goalie Jim Rutherford was traded to the Red Wings he knew his solid blue mask would not fit in with his new team's colors so we asked maskmaker Greg Harrison to paint it white when he got the mask back he found that it was not only white but included Red Wings above the eyes this is not what bruford wanted or asked for but it was too late to have it changed now he needed it right away but the mask was a hit with fans and before long goalies across the league were painting their masks to match their team a few goalies stepped it up and added intricate designs that were more of a personal statement that had almost nothing to do with the team that they played on by the mid 70s nearly every goalie was now wearing a mask of some sort the very last hold out was penguin's goalie Andy Brown whom never played a game with a mask his last game in the NHL was on April 7th 1974 but this was only his last NHL game Andy left the NHL to play for the wh a competitor to the NHL that was paying players more money in many cases and Andy continued to play without a mask until 1977 when he finally retired from the wh even though fiberglass Mass had improved over time they were still not keeping up with the increasing Firepower of Shooters in the 1960s several players like Stan Makita and Bobby Hall began experimenting with curved stick blades which dramatically increased the speed of a shot players began relying on The Slap Shot more and stick manufacturers were incorporating fiberglass into hockey sticks all of which meant more injuries for goalies the fiberglass masks required the eyes to be close to the eye holes to have a clear view because of this eye injuries were increasingly more common even with the use of the best fiberglass masks what goalies began to understand was that the helmet cage combinations like the one worn by ussr's vladislav treak were protecting goalies better than the fiberglass masks throughout the late '70s we saw goalies making the switch from the fiberglass mask to the full cage the first goalie to do so in the NHL was J's creton other goalies like Billy Smith joined him in switching over in the late '70s and some of the new goalies coming into the league played their first games with the helmet cage combination even though it was looking like the cage helmet combination was the safest setup not everyone was in a hurry to switch over many goalies were used to their masks and didn't want to change up what was working for them it could also be an adjustment to look through the bars of a cage Tony Esposito took a unique approach in 1976 he added a modified wire cage on top of his existing fiberglass mask to help reinforce the eye section of the mask while some goalies were making adjustments for added safety most just continued with what they were used to in 1977 a shot hit Sab Gully Jerry deard Dan in the eye area of his mask which injured his eye the injury required surgery and ended deard Dan's goal tending career goalie Dave dren the older brother of Canadians great kenden knew that the cage helmet setups were the safest but had a hard time making the transition he really liked the snug way the top of his Mass rested against the top of his head and the way the back plate kept things snug he didn't like the feel that most helmets had had one strapped to his head so he teamed with mask maker Greg Harrison to design a special goalie mask that had a forehead and Chin section with a back plate keeping things snug but with an eye area redone so it could be fitted with a cage that stayed far away from the eyes and in 1977 Dave Dryden had a fiberglass mask custombuilt with a modified cat eye helmet cage attached to it this fiberglass SL cage combination mask is considered the first modern style of goalie mask but it did not immediately catch on across the NHL many goalies still wore their traditional fiberglass masks even after deard Dan's injury however in 1979 a stick swung up and hit Flyers goalie Bernie pant in the eye this injury ended his goal tending career this started a trend of goalies to leave behind their fiberglass masks in favor of cage helmet setups the early 80s was the era of the helmet cage goalie there were still goalies using old fiberglass masks in the early 80s but they were quickly transitioning into the cage helmet setup UPS there are many different types of helmet cage combinations that a goalie could choose from for their setup one of the earliest Trends included using jofa helmets in cages as they had been doing so for years in Europe early NHL cage wearers like Don Edwards jills ceton Bob s Richard bodor and Ron low amongst others all wore jopa setups one helmet that was tried out in the NHL as a potential goalie helmet was the CCM ht2 helmet it was a common helmet already in the NHL for skaters so getting one was easy but the ht2 had a couple of flaws for goalie use there was a section that the CCM logo was printed on that was flat and if a puck hit you there all of the energy of the puck was pushed back into the goalie's head also the air vents on the right or left of the logo were very thin strips of plastic and could easily be broken by a shot then many goalies discovered that the Cooper sk600 matched with a Cooper hm30 cage offered decent protection with great visibility this is the setup that vladislav treak had been wearing for years the sk600 was lightweight durable and easily available but it also suffered from having a flat section in the middle of the helmet that the Cooper logo sat in even if it sat at a better angle than the CCM but the ultimate helmet for goalies that chose to wear a helmet cage combo proved to be the Cooper sk2000 the most popular mask to be paired with the sk2000 was the Cooper hm30 many goalies wore this exact setup but there were some other combinations some paired it with the hm50 grid style mask like John Van B Brook Dominic hassk and Martin prusik one of the oddest sk2000 combinations ever seen was worn by Andy Moog in the 1988 Olympics after wearing his Pro style mask for a game or two the Olympic Committee came into team kena's locker room to inform them that moog's Pro style Cat ey cage was against Olympic rules and needed to be replaced with a cage with smaller openings so the team dug up an sk2000 helmet but Moog chose to pair it with a full bubble Shield instead of a traditional cage like an hm50 this combination never caught on and for good reason these masks could fog up with a lot of heat definitely not ideal for a goalie they could also leave Puck marks of a puck hit them in The Mask if the Mask doesn't crack which is known to happen with hard direct shots paired with the fact that even little Knicks light glares and distortions can cause visual impairments meant that this setup was never meant to see extensive use for goalies but the Cooper sk2000 was not the only helmet used for goalies even if it was the most popular arur ear Bay was known for wearing a Joe 280 helmet with a jofa 262 cage Tommy sostrom was known for wearing a jofa 290 helmet with a large jofa 278 cage in the 2010 Olympics Swiss goalie Florence shelling wore a jofa 390 helmet with a jofa 387 cage another thing that was unique about the helmet cage combos was the accessories that could be attached to them there were throat protectors that dangled underneath a cage to protect the vulnerable neck area like the coic TP Martin kusk was known to wear one of these with his sk2000 hm50 helmet cage combo for a more stationary neck protection there was the itch n6 throat guard which attached to the cage wires themselves and was worn by goalies like Kelly Rudy with his jofa 280 jofa 262 combo there were all sorts of other add-ons that you could attach to a standard helmet cage combo to make it look a little bit more like the new style of mask that Dave Dryden introduced jofa had a lot of neat add-ons like this but none of them really took off there were a few International games played with these types of add-ons on some European goalies in the ' 80s though but around the same time that helmet cage combos became popular Dave dren's math design also started to gain ground for being a superior protective mask established goalies that spent time experimenting with different setups went to the new style of mask like Chico rash young goalies like Patrick W began entering the league with the new style of mask as their default mask by the late 80s nearly all goalies had ditched the old formfitting fiberglass masks in favor of either a helmet cage combo or what we had now call a modern style mask the last goalie to cling on to their old formfitting fiberglass mask was Sam St laurant who put on the mask for the last time in the NHL in 1990 as more and more goalies tried the modern style of mask more goalies fell in love with the protection it provided especially in the butterfly technique which demands the goalie continuously drop their heads down into shot range many goalies that did switch from the formfitting fiberglass Mass to the helmet cage combinations we now switching to this new Mass design one decision that a goalie needed to make was what style of cage they wanted on their mask while it might not be immediately evident there are actually several different styles of cages that can be attached to a mask the most common cage in the NHL is the pro cat ey the cat ey cage is designed to give the goalies large areas around the eyes that are unobstructed so that the goalie can view the game without having to look through bars the design is based around the Cooper hm30 that was attached to helmets first introduced in the' 70s the bars are still close enough together that a putt can't fit between even the largest opening however that doesn't mean that nothing can get through stick blades can and do sneak their way through the openings of a cat ey cage so while the cat ey cage offers the best visibility it offers the most opportunities for injury in the NHL this is by far the most popular cage type attached to Pro goalie mass for goalies that want full protection we have the certified cage a certified cage is a grid-like pattern that will not only prevent any pucks or stick blades from getting through but they are also designed so that even if a stick blade break break at its thinnest part of the blade it would still not be able to fit through at their skinniest section a stick blade must be at least 2 in so even in a disastrous situation where a blade breaks off at its thinnest part the goalie is still protected from flying blades in the NHL we've seen goolies like John Van beook Kelly Rudy and Drew McIntyre wear the certified cage in lower levels of Pocky goalies are required to wear cages that have been certified so in more recent years when emergency backup goalies have been called up to play in a game a a good number of them have come into games wearing certified cages on their masks there's another cage type that's almost a mix between the cat eye and the certified cage it's called the cheater while it's called the cheater it's completely legal in the NHL the cheater cage is another grid style pattern cage but the cheater cage has its largest openings around the eyes which are larger than the openings of a certified cage while cheater cages are not regulated many of them have grid patterns tight enough to block out stick blades and pucks but would not be able to protect a goalie if stick blade was broken off at its smallest section NHL goalies that have worn the cheater cage include dbo prey Mike leute Rick Walmsley Curtis melany Tim Thomas and Drew McIntyre dbo pre's son Connor also appeared to wear one that looked strikingly similar to his dad's when he was called up as an emergency backup goalie to the Minnesota Wild recently a new variation of the cat ey cage was introduced to the NHL by gonis Hiller it's sometimes known as the open-mouth cat eye cage it's identical to to the cat ey cage around the eyes of the goalie but down by the mouth a long curved bar has been removed and replaced with two smaller bars this not only is reportedly giving goalies a better view when looking straight down but it actually does a better job of keeping out stick blades from entering the lower section of the Mask it is a more expensive style of cage and more complex to manufacture but I could see this style of cage catching on in the future I have already seen it being used in local rinks by amateurs in my area another unique cage was used in the Swiss leagues by goalie Marco straight that's very intriguing to me a traditional cat eye cage is composed of a series of bars that are welded together this hexagonal Grill is actually one solid piece of stainless steel that is cut into the pattern that you see here theoretically this should make it stronger I also like the way that the cage looks a bit like tesi Ham's mask from the 1936 Olympics one other style of Cage worth mentioning is the certified cat eye which is a mask that somewhat has a cat eye look but also meets the requirements to be listed as a certified cage no goalie has ever worn this in the NHL by the 2000s the modern Mass was by far the most popular setup in the NHL with only a handful of goalies still wearing the helmet cage combos but the combos were not quite dead yet even in the 2000s some of the young goalies coming into the league entered in wearing a helmet cage combo the modern style of masks are seen as more protective from a shot so why would anyone still be using the old helmet cage combos well there's actually several reasons why some of the goalies held on to their helmet cage combos aside from it just being what they're used to helmet cage combos typically don't have a back plate and are strapped to the Head securely this means that a helmet is less likely to come off your head in the middle of play and contrary to popular belief if a goalie helmet comes off in the middle of play the play does not automatically get whistled dead in the NHL as long as the refs determine that there is a potential imminent scoring opportunity they are to let the play continue on there even appears to be some NHL goalies that don't know about this rule have we seen examples from Alex the lock as well as an example from Lou de Ming where they've intentionally taken off their masks in order to get a stoppage before you get too angry with these goalies for being poor sports what appears to have happened in both cases is contact from a puck or player approximately where the lower back plate strap connects we can even see a puck mark on Stock's back plate strap if this becomes undone or is blown due to a shot the whole Mass becomes completely unstable will wobble out of place potentially block in the goalie's vision and could slip off at any time what these goalies could have been doing is taking off their Mas to make it obvious to the refs that their straps blew and needed a stoage I'll let you decide for yourselves but with a helmet cage combo the straps typically don't blow off like this and even if a goalie does lose a strap the helmet typically fits snugly enough so that it wouldn't come off even if they're missing a strap helmet cage combos are less likely to come off due to contact as well while the number of goalies that wore helmet cage combo steadily decreased those that did wear them benefited from some improvements in materials that those in modern Mass had already enjoyed for years one of the weaknesses with the SK 2000s like the one hassk war were the side bumpers that protect the adjustment area of the helmet these could be blown off the helmet with a shot the bumpers along with the rest of the helmet is made from plastic by the 2000s hassk was having his helmets made by companies like Warwick and Ray which use modern composite materials for their helmets the newer helmets did not need to have bumpers since they were not designed to be adjustable but rather custom made to each player the composite helmets also made it possible to airbrush these helmets with beautiful results some of the goalies tried getting paint jobs on their older plastic helmets but they never seemed to come out right there was even an instance where a goalie went from a modern mask to a helmet cage combo Rick deatra was the first overall pick by the Islanders in 2000 and on February 2nd of 2011 DPA was in a fight if you want to call call it that with Brent Johnson and dietro had to leave the ice with a broken jaw because of his healing and sensitive jaw when dietro came back later that year he came back wearing an sk2000 hm30 combo that Chris Osgood had worn when he was with the Islanders the chin sling on the hm30 allowed him to rest his chin on the pad which was more comfortable for him as his jaw healed the 2000s also saw the introduction of the Mage mask which was part modern goalie mask part helmet cage combo it's somewhat similar to a modern goalie mask but with the bottom section cut out and an oversized cage with the goalie's choice of a chin rest Tim Thomas was known for wearing this setup for a good period of time while in the NHL by the 2010s many of the goalies that wore helmet cage combos were retiring the last year that a goalie wore a helmet cage combo in the NHL was in 2014 there was an instance where the Sabres needed an emergency goalie to serve as backup after Michael noir went down with an injury so they turned to their goalie coach 47-year-old artier ZB to be their backup for the last two periods while he never needed to come on the ice the Sabres did scramble to put together a helmet cage combo to his liking in case he did need to come into the game also in 2014 Tim Thomas entered a game for the Florida Panthers with an sk600 clone made from Modern materials by Olympia composits and an itch n6 throat protector unfortunately the cage that he paired it with was a standard players cage so when he took a shot right off the face in the first period the cage part of his combo bent in and he finished the game with a mage mask that was the last time a helmet cage combo saw action on the ice in the NHL after 2014 no more helmet cage combos would be seen in the NHL though one did make an appearance in the 2019 KHL skills competition while the modern style of mask may have gotten its start with Dave dragon's original design masks have come a long way since the late '70s as they're now available in lighter weight and sturdier Composite Materials but can still hold on to a paint job as well as any time before my favorite paint jobs on Modern goalie masks are the ones that pay amage to the older goalie Mass throughout history especially when a modern mass is painted to look like an older setup aside from that I think simple paint jobs with large features look the best on Modern goalie Mass a lot of modern paint jobs have small little details that are hard to see from a distance almost like a game of we's Waldo with a goalie Mass which means that most fans won't be able to see what's going on which is a shame because a lot of them have some really cool features so I feel like large simple themes are what works best the impact of the goalie mask extends beyond the sport of ice hockey in the old days of hockey we saw goalies take inspiration from baseball with some of the equipment that Pioneer goalies were using but today it is baseball that has taken inspiration from hockey as modern catcher masks are made in hockey Styles which are more protective than the traditional catcher masks but what does the future hold while no one can predict the future perhaps the future of goalie mask can come in improving the cages on the mask sergean Singh is a mechanical engineer who worked on spaceships for Virgin Galactic Serge and saw the potential of using dyema fiber which is also used in bulletproof vests to build a prototype that was strong yet blocked less of a goalie's Vision right now his cage is still in the testing phase but this concept could develop into some serious advancements I hope you enjoyed this history of goalie masks what was your favorite style of goalie mask consider taking a look at the T-shirt shop and represent the style of goalie mask that you like best or if you have a goalie in your life that you'd like to say thank you too consider saying thank 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Keywords: Goalie Mask, evolution, history, Jofa, Cooper, CCM, HT2, HM30, SK2000, SK600, Tim Thomas, jacques plante, terry sawchuck, Frosty Forristall, greg harrison, ernie higgins, lefty wilson, Doug Favell, gerry cheevers, Elizabeth Graham, Teiji Honma, Don Whiston, FibroSport, Curt Larsson, Tony Espisito, Vladislav Tretiak, Dominik Hasek, cage, combo, combination, Cat-eye, cateye, cat eye, Certified, Cheater, Open mouth, uncage, HM50, Helmet/Cage combo, MAGE, mask, baseball, hockey, ice hockey, catcher

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Length: 31min 52sec (1912 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 19 2023