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For as long as I have been interested in the sport of ice hockey, one item of equipment - the netminder’s mask - has fascinated me like no other. Not because it is a genius of engineering and has increased the safety of those willing to spend the game between the pipes. No, it’s the designs that netminders have painted onto their masks that fascinates me. Each mask is a unique piece of art and although some netminders, like Curtis Joseph and Ed Belfour in the NHL, have a common theme on their mask regardless of who they are playing for (a ‘wolf’ and eagles head respectively for CuJo and Belfour) most have some relevance to the team the netminder is playing for or include the team logo in some way. |