In honor of the impending Super Bowl Sunday, I give you Marc-Andre Fleury:
Yeah, yellow doesn't really go with baby blue. Cool, nonetheless.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Interview with "Saving Face" Author
Victoria Star has posted a really nice interview with the author of the book all about hockey masks, Gary Smith. Here's a small excerpt
""I started making (goalie) masks in grade nine and I was always attracted to masks. Of course growing up in Canada I played hockey and I was attracted to the position of goal because of the masks," he said. "In grade nine I started making them and have been ever since.""
Sounds like my childhood, besides the actually playing goalie, of course.
The whole interview can be found here.
And the Amazon.com listing for the book is here.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Winter Classic 2009
Not a whole lot of mask news during this years Winter Classic. For the first time, no goalie wore a beanie on his mask like Jose Theodore and Ryan Miller did in previous years. The one lone exception was Cristobal Huet who honored the even very well by having the famous Wrigley Field sign on the front of the mask. Ty Conklin, who has been in every Classic donned his normal octopus mask. Personally, I was hoping he would go for a retro looking mask to go with the jerseys.
