The Coverboy

I got home a couple of weeks ago, and was pleasantly surprised at the latest ESPN the mag in the mailbox. Carey Price in all of his glory. Hockey is rare enough on sports magazine covers, but hockey goalies are even rarer.
Anywho, ESPN had a video of the photo shoot (below), and included this beauty in the article.

Pittsburgh Steelguins

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.

Luongo Explains His Throwback Mask

When the Mask Goes Wrong

Sharks goalie, Evgeni Nabokov, now knows the importance of his mask. Yes, besides being a canvas for their artwork, it also protects them from pieces of vulcanized rubber coming at them at 90+ mph.

Michael Scott has some goalie in Him

From the Dana Carvey Show (1996) Episode Two, comes this clip featuring a less famous Steve Carell. I always wondered how goalies practice by themselves.

Also, the mask isn't that bad for the 90's.

Nashville Pred's Masks

From UniWatchBlog.com:

"Nice little video clip here that finds Predators goalies Chris Mason and Dan Ellis discussing their mask designs (as forwarded by Wade D. Harder)"

If you haven't checked out this site yet, do it now. Great daily content about the small things in sports uniforms, sometimes even goalie masks.

Whats this? Dahwks!

I bring you one of my favorite videos ever. It begins ordinary, J.S. Giguere talking about his cyborg mask. Then the good stuff happens. Ilya Bryzgalov, proceeds to tell us about his cartoon covered mask, broken English and all. This is somewhat old, but hope my one reader* likes it.



*One reader may not be true, there, in fact, may be none

Dwayne Roloson's Former Mask's Backstory

Current Mask