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The Hockey Mask 50 Years Later: Not Required, But Never Without 83

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Scott Weldon
Jacques Plante wore a mask for the first time on November 1, 1959.

Jacques Plante wore a mask for the first time on November 1, 1959.

Ken Dryden in his book THE GAME spent a chapter explaining why goalies were not regular hockey players. They dressed differently, they played differently, they were different. While the rest of a goaltenders teammates are skating around passing and shooting a puck, stick handling, moving, the goalie sits and waits. He does nothing but wait to be assaulted from all angles with a vulcanized rubber puck shot at him at over a hundred miles an hour.

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