Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Newest Blank Canvas to Create On...

Masks are now old news*. The newest goaltender equipment/art statement is the stick. Two NHL goalies have seen using sticks with some sort of design on it. Chris Mason went with his number (50) and his teams logo, while Patrick Lalime of the Sens took it another route with Marvin the Martian, the same lovable alien that is on his mask. What they might be using is a product called Blade Tape (official site)
I think this a great way to extend the art on the mask, to the stick, as long as it doesn't get carried away, like putting stuff on the pads.

Notes:
Tobias Stephan seems to prefer Marty Turco's white mask, since he himself has one.
Jose Theodore switched teams, but hasn't gotten around to changing his mask.
Mathieu Garon has a incredible mask to go along with the Oilers new 3rd Jersey/throwback, I believe it is modeled after Grant Fuhr's

2 comments:

Histone Group Consulting said...

Yes, Chris Mason has been using a custom Goalie BladeTape design.

You can get a cool pic of it here:
http://www.bladetape.ca/ourproducts_goalietape

Histone Group Consulting said...

Yes, Chris Mason has been using a custom Goalie BladeTape design.

You can get a good view of it here:
http://www.bladetape.ca/ourproducts_goalietape