To: Borges
The odd irony is that he was the first major star to begin wearing a helmet regularly (did so in January 1968 after Bill Masterton died from a head injury). The leftists who wrote the sports pages back then (predictably) made a big hero out of him for doing so.
3 posted on
06/15/2015 10:46:34 AM PDT by
OttawaFreeper
("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
To: OttawaFreeper
The leftists who wrote the sports pages back then (predictably) made a big hero out of him for doing so.
And you think Mikita was what - selfish, wrong, a coward - for wearing a helmet?
4 posted on
06/15/2015 10:50:43 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: OttawaFreeper
The odd irony is that he was the first major star to begin wearing a helmet regularly I remember watching the Penguins back in the day, and the last goaltender to play without a mask (as far as I know) - Andy Brown, I think. Thought he was completely nuts.
33 posted on
06/15/2015 6:11:20 PM PDT by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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