stick blades razor-sharp skates and
flying pucks these are the perils that
face any goaltender and just think they
didn’t always wear a mask hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be learning more about the
history of the goalie mask tell us about
the creation of the goalie mask in the
early days of hockey wasn’t the same
game wasn’t the same vigorous or a rough
game puck state along the ice goalie
stood up and so they didn’t need it but
by 1930 or 1940 game changed the guy
shot the puck harder the sticks were
improving a little bit and goalies were
getting hurt like mad when did the
goalie mask become commonplace the
fiberglass goalie mask was invented by a
Montreal named Dilbert more in 1959 and
worn by Jacque plot after Jacques Plante
wore his it was still you know there was
resistance 3/4 and some resistance
afterwards hockey was a team with D NHL
anyways had six teams at that time so
you had two or three wearing a mask and
by 1967 still some guys holding out by
1968 couple of hardcore guys Glenn Hall
and Johnny Bower put masks on everyone
was wearing him by 1970 there was one
coupe that sort of held out why was
there so much resistance to it initially
sports guys are tend to be conservative
and they had old-fashioned ideas really
dumb macho ideas some glues didn’t want
to be perceived as not being brave
enough did it change the way goalies
played the modern mass that we call the
combo today it’s a very bulletproof
piece of high engineering that allowed
police to change their technique a
little bit we happy to be saw in the
late 1980s goalies start playing
something called the butterfly that’s
where they drop to their knees on every
shot to do that with some of the guys
who could really fire the puck at that
time you had to be wearing a pretty good
goalie mask what about the evolution of
the goalie mask you mentioned the the
combo mask but obviously we saw
something else before that we saw
different kinds in between the first
mask was the molded fiberglass mask what
made that mask work was that hugged your
face so when you moved your head your
eyes were still in the eye holes and you
could still see the Achilles heel of
that mask was that year I was exposed
the mask got bigger wrapped around the
head more start to become a bit more of
a helmet still had the eye whole thing
still until around the midnight
where we invented this mask and called
the combo in court it incorporated them
really the fiberglass mask and the cage
today we see goalies personalizing their
mess with the airbrush designs let’s
talk about the evolution of mask art
when a mask art first started we saw
some very plain things are solid colors
very simple logos some stripes that may
be matched at the team jersey now you
have airbrushing and you can paint
whatever you want can you give us a few
more examples of memorable masks the
most memorable mask of all is Gerry
Cheevers very plain stitches mask that
he started to do as a joke he was a
great Joker who actually hated the
practice and he was always looking for a
way to to get out of things and for fun
once he he put a stitch where a Puckett
clipped him he had a great sense of
humor he said that the puck that hit him
actually could wouldn’t have wouldn’t
have heard a canary but he would he
pretended he was injured to get out of
practice and when his coach forced him
back onto the ice he had to put some
fake stitches there everyone laughed
but that caught on with people art is a
matter of taste in traditional arts and
I think all the masks art is – thank you
very much
[Music]
flying pucks these are the perils that
face any goaltender and just think they
didn’t always wear a mask hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be learning more about the
history of the goalie mask tell us about
the creation of the goalie mask in the
early days of hockey wasn’t the same
game wasn’t the same vigorous or a rough
game puck state along the ice goalie
stood up and so they didn’t need it but
by 1930 or 1940 game changed the guy
shot the puck harder the sticks were
improving a little bit and goalies were
getting hurt like mad when did the
goalie mask become commonplace the
fiberglass goalie mask was invented by a
Montreal named Dilbert more in 1959 and
worn by Jacque plot after Jacques Plante
wore his it was still you know there was
resistance 3/4 and some resistance
afterwards hockey was a team with D NHL
anyways had six teams at that time so
you had two or three wearing a mask and
by 1967 still some guys holding out by
1968 couple of hardcore guys Glenn Hall
and Johnny Bower put masks on everyone
was wearing him by 1970 there was one
coupe that sort of held out why was
there so much resistance to it initially
sports guys are tend to be conservative
and they had old-fashioned ideas really
dumb macho ideas some glues didn’t want
to be perceived as not being brave
enough did it change the way goalies
played the modern mass that we call the
combo today it’s a very bulletproof
piece of high engineering that allowed
police to change their technique a
little bit we happy to be saw in the
late 1980s goalies start playing
something called the butterfly that’s
where they drop to their knees on every
shot to do that with some of the guys
who could really fire the puck at that
time you had to be wearing a pretty good
goalie mask what about the evolution of
the goalie mask you mentioned the the
combo mask but obviously we saw
something else before that we saw
different kinds in between the first
mask was the molded fiberglass mask what
made that mask work was that hugged your
face so when you moved your head your
eyes were still in the eye holes and you
could still see the Achilles heel of
that mask was that year I was exposed
the mask got bigger wrapped around the
head more start to become a bit more of
a helmet still had the eye whole thing
still until around the midnight
where we invented this mask and called
the combo in court it incorporated them
really the fiberglass mask and the cage
today we see goalies personalizing their
mess with the airbrush designs let’s
talk about the evolution of mask art
when a mask art first started we saw
some very plain things are solid colors
very simple logos some stripes that may
be matched at the team jersey now you
have airbrushing and you can paint
whatever you want can you give us a few
more examples of memorable masks the
most memorable mask of all is Gerry
Cheevers very plain stitches mask that
he started to do as a joke he was a
great Joker who actually hated the
practice and he was always looking for a
way to to get out of things and for fun
once he he put a stitch where a Puckett
clipped him he had a great sense of
humor he said that the puck that hit him
actually could wouldn’t have wouldn’t
have heard a canary but he would he
pretended he was injured to get out of
practice and when his coach forced him
back onto the ice he had to put some
fake stitches there everyone laughed
but that caught on with people art is a
matter of taste in traditional arts and
I think all the masks art is – thank you
very much
[Music]
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