The Jacques Plante mask story took place in one night. Sort of. He'd been bugging coach Toe Blake to wear the mask he'd been wearing in practice during a game but Blake wouldn't let him.
Until one night when he was cut badly. As was the custom back then, they took him to the dressing room, stitched him up and he came back out to play. Teams only carried one goalie then so the game waited while this was done. He came back out with the mask which Blake reluctantly let him wear. The deal was Plante could wear it until the injury healed. But Plante won 11 in a row with the mask and was then in a position to tell Blake he wasn't taking it off again. http://www.nhl.com/ice/m_news.htm?id=383063 Plante was also one of the greatest of all time, a true innovator in many other ways. BTW your Devils just beat my Habs. Must have been a good home-and-home as we won last night. Good hockey when those two meet. Cheers, frank On November 28, 2015 3:20:01 PM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote: >One of my friends and classmates at Dartmouth, Kevin Lowther, was one >of the first college goalies to wear a face mask. He was injured by a >puck to the face early in his college career, just about the time that >Plante first started wearing a mask in the NHL. He missed most of a >season, and when he came back, did so wearing the mask, which was >unheard of back them. > >Those were real men, who manned the crease with a bare face! >Dan Matyola >http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > >On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 11:45 AM, knarf <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Hey, Ken Dryden, possibly the greatest goaltender ever (yes, I'm >biased, I'm a Montreal fan) was Ivy League. Played hockey at Cornell. >> >> But then he was a different kind of athlete. Completed his law degree >while playing with the Habs (at McGill, my alma mater!), won 6 Stanley >Cups in 8 years of play, went on to become a best-selling author, >lawyer, hockey executive, and politician (got elected as a Member of >Parliament). >> >> Not bad. >> >> Cheers, >> >> frank >> >> On November 28, 2015 1:50:11 AM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola" ><[email protected]> wrote: >>>Thanks, Jack, Frank and Ann. >>> >>>Hockey is difficult to shoot, because the boards and the Plexiglas >>>atop the boards obscure a lot of the action. >>> >>>Yes, Ann, the fans are a bit casual, but by this time, the home team >>>had the game well in hand. Besides, it's the Ivy League, not big >time >>>college sports. <G> >>> >>>Dan Matyola >>>http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> >>>On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:31 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> >>>wrote: >>>> What I found interesting was how disinterested most of the >spectators >>>look >>>> in what was going on in the game... >>>> The pattern the players were making was nice >>>> >>>> ann >>>> >>>> On 11/27/2015 11:23 PM, knarf wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Too many men on the ice! That's a two minute bench penalty. >>>>> >>>>> That's quite the traffic jam you caught in front of the bench, >Dan. >>>Nice >>>>> action. >>>>> >>>>> And yes, I know, it's not really too many men. It just looks that >>>way. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> frank >>>>> >>>>> On November 27, 2015 1:16:46 PM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola" >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >From a recent Dartmouth hockey game against Brown: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18133841&size=lg >>>>>> K-5 IIs, DA 18-135 zoom >>>>>> Comments are encouraged. >>>>>> >>>>>> Dan Matyola >>>>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>>and >>>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and follow the directions. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
