Some soccer players used to play without shin pads. The injuries and the pain that they go through each match, rolling around on the floor, screaming and crying: I wonder how the old guys were so very brave ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@HelllNawh His point was that back then you could not shoot a puck even close to fast as they do now with modern composite hockey sticks. Also the whole game was played at a lot slower speed when compared to modern hockey.
I can't believe the badasses who went on the ice wearing no mask. Today, I have a full carbon fibre mask with a titanium cage. I could probably run over it with my car without destroying it. We've come a long way in 50 years
Still sometimes happens to players these days. Just the other day watched the world cup as one slovakian took a shot to the face. Dude bled quite alot.
I used to watch hockey NHL hockey on TV when they had no masks on the goalies and it didn’t look strange then. I mean when you think about it they don’t wear masks today when they going to a boxing ring or when they do cage fighting
In high school (1976) I made a 7 layer molded fiberglass mask that covered my head and ears. I put an eighth inch layer of wax on the plaster mold of my head to make the mask a little bigger to accomodate foam strips above my eyebrows , my cheek bones and jaw line. I got beaned a couple of times. 1 concussion but no cuts. The mask never cracked.
the first one they showed the clear riot shield mask was actually a pretty good idea and I never knew about it. some of these mask look like they should come with a straight jacket lol
That was Cool !! I'm also a Goalie and still play today, there is no way I'd go back to my mask, I've had several helmets crushed to where the steel mesh was touching my face !! Those older Goalies had nerves of steel when it came to game time !!
Arthur ok I have a hard time believing that it happened multiple times to you, having the steel crushed so much to where it is touching your face is extremely hard and unluckily, and hardly even happens to a goalie, let alone multiple times
True, the first time an NHL goalie refused to take his mask off. For the first to wear a mask period, check out Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons.
Reina Arana well to make a long answer short when the brain sees something that mimics a human face it gets confused and tells you that you can’t trust that thing. That’s the leading theory anyway
I remember in the 80s Grant Fuhr talking about the extra bits of rubber and foam he put inside his mask to make it more comfortable when a pick hit it, but even then it was still harsh. And that's to say nothing about skates and the damage they can cause when a goalie is sprawled out in the crease. Just ask Clint Malarchuk...
Isaiah Kaulaity Yeah... I’m a big big fan of Formula 1 and in the 50’s (and prior) anything with the smallest of forces hitting engine/fuel tank almost with 100% certainty caused an immediate burst of flames which often times didn’t even call to stop the race- the race went on as paramedics and firefighters then risked their lives going on a live track... I have 50+ examples of the lack of safety in just the 50-60’s era.. 4.5 drivers died per year (and many more left crippled) during this era... that would NOT fly today lol
Isaiah Kaulaity Back then guys didn’t really try to shoot high. They were trying to score, and without much in the way of curved blades the puck wasn’t as easy to lift into a corner of the net.
@@ballaking1000 The thing is-the problem with fires didn't really get solved until the military developed rubber bladders and dry-break fuel line connectors for things like helicopters. Part of it was not making safety a priority, but it was also partly because the technology just wasn't there.
@@almostfm For sure the technology wasn't there. It's still mind boggling though- I wouldn't even bring my kids to the racetrack if I was a father then.
It feels insane that it took years and more than hundred skyjackings for safety checks at airports to become a thing because the airlines were worried of people having to wait in a line.
I started watching in about 1968, when the masks were tiny and neither wrapped around nor covered all of the forehead from the front. There were still a lot of barefaced holdouts like Vachon, Binkley, Worsley, Giacomin, Bower and Gamble, etc., although by about 1970 most of them would see the light and cover up. The first year ('72-'73) of the World Hockey Association, which challenged the NHL for players, I saw a game in the finals between the Winnipeg Jets and New England Whalers at Boston Garden. Our seats were maybe 15 rows behind the net. Joe Daley of the Jets went down on his side in a scramble after his initial save. The rebound shot hit him squarely on the bare forehead. He was carried off, and Ernie Wakely finished up. I was a goalie in the '70s and '80s, and always wore a cage. I always wondered after catching a shot in the face area how anybody had continued to play barefaced once the sticks were made of laminated wood, and once the shooters had discovered both the slap shot and the curved stick blade. Even in the primitive days, a slap shot taken with a curved stick would dip and sail in ways that made a broken nose, lost teeth, or a blinded eye a sure thing if the shot was high. Bareface was ultimately an anachronism left over from the earliest days, when the goalies were not allowed to go down to make a save, and the un-laminated straight sticks couldn't often lift a puck more that 18 inches off the ice.
I remember a game at State Fair Arena in OKC in the late 60s in the old Central Hockey League. Al “Boom Boom” Caron of the Omaha Knights skated over the blue line and unleashed his ungodly slapper, reputed to travel well over 100 mph. The goalie for the OKC Blazers, “Jumpin’ Joe Junkin wasn’t wearing a mask. He came out of the crease to cut down the angle and never had a chance as the puck caught him flush on the forehead. At the time it reminded me of the Zapruder film showing JFK getting shot. How the Jumper survived I’ll never know .
My grandfather was a goalie for the Canadians farm team for 8 years in the the era with no mask and the goals were frozen into the ice he told me some crazy stories
if you check hockey stick that time there was no limits for radius of blade ... especialy Hull sen. played with high radius so it was much easier for hard shots
Those were Plantes first words in recovery “ the mask saved my life”. It was from a booming slap shot from Freddie Stanfield in 1970 Stanley cup finals blues (who plante played for at the time) vs bruins rendering plante unconscious.
I knew they used to play without helmets. I never knew goalies didn't wear a mask back then! Bravo to those crazy bastards! There is no way in hell I would play goal without a mask!
Our goalie got that throat guard that hung down off the mask. In that first practice we all put in $5 to go to the first player to hit his throat guard with a shot. He never knew and boy did we celebrate the winning shot.
Growing up here in Los Angeles, hockey isn't exactly on the top of the list as far as youth sports and professional sports are concerned. But, I do love professional sports, and I can appreciate all the great athletes efforts, pains and struggles from yester year... I always wondered if anyone might have thought of, or used an old style baseball's catchers mask, while playing goalie? I'm sure it could have added some needed protection, while being able to see across the ice? Just a thought...
When I was a kid, I used to wear the old style goalie mask, but only playing street hockey. They were so bad I would have preferred nothing at all. When you got hit with the cold street hockey puck or ball, damn that hurt so bad it felt like I had a concussion.
I think goaltenders who went out on a ice rink professionally without a mask were the most insane/toughest ppl in sports. I always thought contact sports were dangerous and it was the price you paid for possible fame forever and good money. To not wear a mask, back then, is just wow! I love hockey and would throw myself down on the street or field to block balls or softer pucks and play goalie (with a mask usually) in the early 90s, and on but pucks are no joke. Those can cause real injuries.
Yogi Berra said that a catcher's equipment were the 'tools of ignorance'. Seems to me that back in the mid 1900's, that could also have been said about a hockey goalie's equipment.
It’s still kinda scary today to get hit in the face with with a mask that we have these days but I wonder what those heroes faced on the ice without a mask
The mask actually came from the actor, it was supposed to be a burlap sack with eye holes, but he put his hockey mask on for a lighting test he was a hockey guy, the director loved it and kept it.
The Bossk I know that the newer masks are made with Kevlar and carbon fiber so that would be a cool idea. There's a mask over in Sweden that has this badass honey comb patterned cage
one time i showed up to a game in a old mask and my dad was laughing because after the game i found out i had his mask from when he was a kid my grandpa was there also he was a goalie and after the game said i wish i had that when i was a kid my team laughed the coach laughed and said... Nice mask but your gonna hurt yourself and your a good goalie we need you we also had no back ups meaning that if i got hurt we would be playing without a goalie that day the puck hit off my mask i did not hurt myself but it flying i was amazed the practice after that coach looked in my bag and said after practice while we were in the showers why do you still have the old mask and i said dont know he said i get the extra blades for the skates and pads equipment goalie stuff but the old mask i recently found the mask in my basment 20 years later now im 32 im still friends with people on my team my dad and mom are still alive but my grandpa and the coach both died RIP now i have my two kids tyler and ein both goalies i gave ein the mask and his coach chuckled and said take that off dont want you getting hurt so those are my childhood memorys of that mask and just vintige equipment.
Who new the story of Jason’s mask apparently it was a hockey mask what happened is the character Jason had nothing to cover his face and one director was a goalie at the old times and he said,”Wear this.” So he did and now that’s how he got the mask.
