FIrst Entry of 2008
Posted on 2007-Dec-31 at 11:43 in Amusements...
What else? Hockey Trivia!!
Last NHL player to play without a helmet:
Craig MacTavish, St. Louis 1996-1997
First NHL player to play with a helmet:
George Owen, Boston 1929
wore his leather football helmet
First NHL team to all play with helmets:
Boston Bruins, 4 January 1934
After seeing their defenseman, Eddie Shore fracture Ace Bailey's skull in a simple bodycheck gone wrong. They wore their leather helmets for the first time in a game where they were defeated by the Ottawa Senatore 9-2.
First goalie to wear a mask:
Clint Benedict, Montreal Maroons, January 1930
wore a leather mask for several games after a broken cheekbone but stopped wearing one due to obstructed vision on low shots.
First NHL goalie to play with a helmet regularly:
Jacques Plante, Montreal, 1959-1960
Made his own fibreglass mask
Last NHL goalie to play without a helmet:
Andy Brown, Pittsburgh, 7 April 1974
First NHL goalie to decorate his mask:
Gerry Cheevers, Boston, 1967-1968
Cheevers painted his mask with black stitch marks as a joke after Fred Stanfield scratched his mask in practice.
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I just watched a game with Craig MacTavish playing without a helmet. It was the last season he played with the Blues and he looked pretty funny out there without a helmet in a sea of helmeted hockey players.
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