Plante's insistence that he be allowed to wear it – despite the protestations of Montreal Canadiens coach Toe Blake – not only changed goaltending, it changed the game of hockey.The first professional hockey player to wear one was Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons. And that’s hard to believe because he’s one of the great ones. ... or was it Elizabeth Graham?Mr. It's not surprising they couldn't be tested there, but wow. It seemed to work. He wrote to Mr. Plante and, over the summer, Mr. Plante agreed to sit while a mould of plaster of Paris was made of his face. "My first game as a pro, I got 10 stitches over the eye and the next practice I got five. He tried the European cage masks but it seemed to him the padding was all in the top: "Great if someone drops a concrete block on your head, but I don't get cut there. I got hit flush on the cheekbone and cracked the bone, but continued to play. Jacques Plante had wanted to protect his nose; what he ended up doing was changing the game. "Sooner or later, all of us — our vanity had to be put on the back burner and we had to wear a mask. He soon gave up on it.For years after, many goalies – especially if they wore glasses – would play wearing a baseball catcher's mask. In addition to his outstanding numbers, Cheevers is also remembered for his mask, which featured stitches to show where pucks hit him. He can be reached at Gerry Cheevers in 1980, long after he'd adopted his trademark mask.More than 50 years ago, he put a mask on his face in the name of safety and he has no regrets. "My face is my mask," joked the Rangers' Gump Worsley. He began during the 1968-69 season and periodically added more. But if you won’t do it, I think it’s egomania. Football had Joe Namath’s white shoes. But if you got hit on the cheekbone, it would shut the whole mask and wreck your face, so when I was with the Bruins, Ernie Higgins [a craftsman from Norwood] and I got together and worked on one. "The first mask I had was developed by a trainer for the Detroit Red Wings. Frank McCool's nickname was Ulcers. Who invented the goalie mask – Jacques Plante? "We were playing at the Boston Garden and he was at one end and I was at the other and Bobby let a shot go and it went through a screen, and Hall had his catching mitt over his face and his stick mitt over his crotch and it hit the glass. He was playing his 22nd season without a mask. By the time Plante retired in 1975 every NHL goalie wore a mask and wouldnÍt dream of playing without one.This article was published more than 3 years ago. "People that won’t wear the mask are underestimating the seriousness of this situation,'' says Cheevers, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla. "Put it on. He went to Cooper, the hockey equipment manufacturer, and an employee (and former goaltender) Greg Harrison got involved. If you are looking to give feedback on our new site, please send it along to To view this site properly, enable cookies in your browser. ("Imagine questioning a goalie's courage," Worsley says.) Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Andy Brown was the last NHLer to go maskless, in a game against the Rangers on April 7, 1974. "I saw a woman in an outdoor restaurant last night and she had made four or five masks with sparkles on them. Basketball had Kareem’s goggles. No wonder goaltender Glenn Hall threw up before every game. "My face is my mask," joked the Rangers' Gump Worsley. Non-subscribers can read and sort comments but will not be able to engage with them in any way. He joked to Mr. Hynes and Mr. Smith that it was the beginning of "mask art," now a highly sophisticated art form.Goalies were still getting injured with the close-fitting fibreglass masks – after Mr. Plante retired, he manufactured and sold them – and they sometimes had trouble seeing through the eyeholes. They could "fill the net" and make scoring more difficult. "Right now, I’m wearing the same type of mask everyone else wears, but someone’s making me one out of a Canadian flag and I plan to wear it. He lost and never played another game.Boston goaltender Gerry Cheevers began applying "stitches" to his mask where pucks pinged off it. "The Plante mask was a blessing; the hybrid mask was a miracle," Ken Dryden wrote last year in The traditional "stand-up" style of goaltending had always been a compromise between keeping pucks out of net and keeping pucks away from the head. "I had deep eye sockets, so I couldn’t really see the puck at my feet. And he put on a mask the next game. Lorne “Gump” Worsley was an exception and one of the last to give it up. ''He played only seven NHL games in his first year with the Bruins organization. Nicknamed for his likeness to cartoon character Andy Gump, Worsley was one of hockey's greatest characters.


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