A while back I was curious who was Glenn Hall’s back-up when the Hawks won the Stanley Cup in 1961 - and when I checked the records (if I recall correctly) he tended goal for every single game that season. I’m pretty sure a guy named Dennis DeJordy (spelling?) backed him up, but I’m not sure he every got off the bench and out between the pipes that year! It’s tough to imagine goalies in the today’s game with anywhere near that level of usage.
And back in the early 60’s goalies like Hall didn’t wear masks.
Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita curving their stick blades hastened the arrival of goalie masks.