Saving Face: The Art and History of the Goalie Mask
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Tony Esposito Vintage Style Goalie Mask
Vintage goalie masks a labour of love | Habs Inside/Out
For the past three years, Poulin has used his hands and imagination to produce dozens of styles of vintage fiberglass goalie masks, painstakingly detailed masterpieces of a bygone NHL. Eye, strap and ventilation holes are drilled, sharp edges are filed and sanded smooth, and the mask is further sanded before it’s spray-painted, that is, if something other than the white-pigment resin is required. With NHL netminder Dave Dryden, Harrison would develop the combo, a mask marrying the cage and head plate that’s the goaltending standard today. On Poulin’s kitchen table in Lachine are probably 15 masks he could use for a heist. He might have to wrestle the crude mask off the mold the next morning, before drawing every feature on it from his photos. Dave Stubbs has been a sportswriter since 1976, which was roughly a decade after he wore the first of many holes through the knees of his jeans playing nets in road hockey (using a modified butterfly popularized by Hall of Famer Glenn Hall)....