Here’s a good feature about goalie masks done by the Calgary Sun and quaoting Curtis McElhinney. His new mask is mentioed but no pictures were included with the article.

Pulling a skinny, old-looking faceplate out of the bench at his stall in the locker-room, Miikka Kiprusoff holds up the last of the new masks he’s got hidden.

This one will never be used in a game — it’s a replica of Gerry Cheevers’ mask, littered with stitches his face would have had to endure if not for Jacques Plante’s innovation.

It was 50 years ago Sunday Plante returned to a game with a homemade mask guarding the Montreal Canadiens goaltender’s face and nose — broken by a wristshot courtesy of Rangers forward Andy Bathgate minutes earlier.

He wasn’t the first to wear one, but he was the first to adopt it permanantly. Back then it was for protection. Now, they’re equally about style.

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