Slide Show at thread link ... for those interested in seeing all the masks.
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Don't forget to tune in to VS tonight to watch Game 3 between the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay. The semi-final series is tied at 1 game a piece.
That’s an awesome “Top 50” Internet story. How did I know that Cheevers’ mask would be #1 on that list — without even looking at it? LOL.
I grew up in rural Northwest Indiana and loved the Chicago Blackhawks. Our old Zenith TV only got 3 Chicago channels but one of them carried the Hawks. Vince Loyd and Loyd Pettit called the games. Back in those none of the goalies wore a mask. For that matter no one wore a helmet OR a mask. Poor old Glenn Hall who tended the net at that time got beat to hell. I can’t remember a game when someone didn’t get hauled off to the locker room to get stitched up. And, by God, there were only 6 teams in the League. Ah, those were the days
Let’s go Broonz ! Cheesie was a damn good coach too.
I was wondering if Cheevers was on the list. I remember when he played for the Rochester Amerks back in the 60’s. I was a teenage girl at the time and had a crush on him. One game I was at he took a puck to the chin and had a nasty cut that required stitches. He didn’t wear a mask back then.
When I was 15 I painted my mask, a sort of wedge that covered my ears, just like a mask on the cover of a Steve Miller Band album (Joker?). Lion from the Coors beer can on the tape on the wide shaft of my stick.