For that reason the original idea was to mimic beer, but he continued to use the splash design (with new colors) for each of the teams he went on to play for. May 9, 2013 - Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante, in his team’s Forum dressing room in the late 1950s, wears a clear Plexiglas-like mask that only ever saw action in practice. "When the coach comes in and tells him to get back out there, Cheevers grabs a magic marker and draws a line of stitches where the puck had hit him. "Ron Tugnutt, the goalie known for his splash design, also keeps his masks — roughly a dozen of them — as markers of memory, albeit it in a different way. Ron Tugnutt, seen here playing for the Ottawa Senators in 1997, says he got the idea for a splash design a few years earlier while playing for the Montreal Canadiens, which was owned by the Molson family. All images presented herein are the property of the Hockey Hall of Fame

And he says, 'No it's not.' Binnington may be a rookie playing in his first Stanley Cup Final, but he has been taking part in a tradition that dates back decades. "I have a son that was born while I played in Portland, Maine, so that mask is in his bedroom, and I have a son from my time in Anaheim, Calif., and that mask is in his bedroom," Tugnutt says.But don't think that this bond between a goalie and his mask, as strong as it may be, is unbreakable. The mask, which was designed by Frank Cipra and inspired by Corey Hirsch, seen during his playing days with the Vancouver Canucks. Here she is playing against the U.S. national team during the preliminary rounds. Dwayne wore our Promasque for 17 years in the NHL without a head related injury. This is one of the many illustrations in Hockey Hall of Fame Treasures. It featured a regular hockey helmet with a full bird cage covering the face, which soon after became quite popular. Despite the initial objections of his coach, he kept using it even after his nose healed — and as the Canadiens continued to win, his coach's objections quietly subsided.So after Cheevers took a particularly nasty shot in the face during practice, the legend goes, he left the ice to head to the locker room and collect himself. Curtis Joseph, then still playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, warms up before a game in New York City in 2008. Robert Laberge/Getty Images Tom Pennington/Getty Images And that freaks a lot of people out," Arrigo laughs. With a big boost from trailblazers such as The increasing intricacy makes for much more of a challenge these days — including some rather intense conversations between goaltender and artist that could sometimes go so far as to resemble a session with a therapist. Many of these masks embody the personalities of the players wearing them or the teams they represent. In other words, nearly two and a half decades before their rookie goaltender, At the same time, for all his youth, the team's 25-year-old netminder will be taking part in the same decades-old tradition as his veteran Bruin counterpart, Both masks also represent something the uninitiated may not have expected to find on an ice surface: art, history — even high fashion, of a sort.

Jacques Plante, the goaltender who helped lead the Montreal Canadiens to five straight Stanley Cup wins, began using a mask after a shot to the face injured his nose in November 1959. "Years ago, I would tell them, 'I want to get into your head.' Tom Pennington/Getty Images That includes

"It became his trademark. Robert Laberge/Getty Images The mask, which was designed by Frank Cipra and inspired by So, when Cipra and Hirsch settled on a Halloween theme — "He called me up and said he wanted something dark, almost evil," Cipra remembers — it struck a nerve when someone brought up the house from Hitchcock's "I didn't know what I was going through right at the time.

"There was maybe only two or three guys, really, doing it 20 years ago," says Arrigo, who has been in the business about a decade and a half now. And then when we get to the final concepts — and I hate saying this to him — but it's like, 'This is what I suggested in the first place!' We then go a step further by personally customizing the fit of each mask to the individual keeper.

"Any mask that I've done, there's a story behind it," says These days he says he doesn't do masks for NHL players anymore — he prefers the slower pace of the lower levels — but in the early 1990s, not long after he got started, Cipra was one of just a handful of artists who designed just about every mask in the league.
The Keeper mask you purchase from PROMASQUE is hand laminated from the exact set of six molds we use to fit our NHL goalies. "Then his wife will get involved and she'll play between us and all this stuff. Here she is playing against the U.S. national team during the preliminary rounds.

David Arrigo also designed the mask that Canada goaltender Genevieve Lacasse wore during the 2018 Olympics. The way he saw it, he would have had to get those stitches for real if he hadn't been wearing that mask.

In the 1972 Summit Series, Russian goaltender Vladislav Tretiak used a helmet-cage hybrid mask. "The art of mask decoration has evolved quite a bit since those early days. Even after they went out of style, Dominik Hasek continued to wear this type of mask until his retirement in 2008 and Chris Osgood still wears one with the Detroit Red Wings. Sometimes these days I don't even remember how bad it was," he says. Even art bows before that great god, superstition. And that meant a "I was working, no kidding, 24/7.

Here's Some goalie masks have all but entered the realm of fine art.

In late 2011, Frank Servello noticed something strange while at the Hall of Fame and notified Doug Favell that the Hall of Fame was using a replica mask as a representation of his Toronto Maple Leafs mask. It will remain there on display for all hockey fans to see. He'd draw new sets of stitches on that white bit of headgear every time he took a shot to the face.


Dwayne wore our Promasque for 17 years in the NHL without a head related injury. So many, in fact, that 325,000 people annually flock to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto for an exhibit that displays historic goalie masks with an awed respect befitting precious artifacts.


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