Richard Sevigny with the red white and blue is one of my favorites, however I believe the only hockey card that shows it is in 83 but he's wearing it on his head like cheevers.
And the action pose of Ridley on his card...later I wondered " How is there no obstruction from any of the players on the ice?" A perfect camera position....beautiful card.
I'm 45 yrs old and 46 in a month. I had everyone of these cards growing up. When Upper Deck came out it ruined card trading. I mangled all my cards shooting them growing up. A canadian game we played as kids. Just take everyone's cards lol. My brother though has saved cards though that are mind blowing.
Esposito's mask with the cage addition has to be the ugliest but most endearingly unique in my opinion. The Cooper SK2000 with the HM30 cage is my personal favorite, despite not being painted.
I’ve always thought the secret to a good hockey mask design is similar to a good flag design - The design should be simple enough that even an 8-year old could draw it. I’d add Wayne Stephenson 77 Flyers Bunny Larocque 82 Leafs John Garrett 82 Whalers Mike Palmateer 78 Leafs Billy Smith 77 Islanders
Oh my stars,Cheevers' mask was *so* minimal. Ron Low played for the London Knights and one evening, he walked off the team bus in the middle of a snow storm, big story in the city at the time.
Doug Favell was one of my favorites, and that Rockies uniform in my opinion was one of the best uniforms ever. I was such a big fan of Doug’s that one time when our family was in Denver I looked in the phone book and actually found Doug’s phone number and address, I had my parents drive me to the address listed which was in Evergreen Colorado, I went to his home but nobody was home, anyway always wanted to meet Doug, he was definitely one of my childhood goalie heroes
Something I've decided I'm going to do; go to my local photo shop, get a hockey card (or 5) I really liked as a kid, and get it blown up to 8x10..get a dollar store frame and put the actual hockey card in the frame with it...
love the 10th place mask Corrado , Murray Bannerman well 8 should be number 1 Ken Dryden My favorite goalie Gary Innis Michel Dion Ron Low , Tony Esposito I don't like the bird cage mask Gerry Cheevers should be number 2? great list.
When you showed your Ken Dryden card with the pinhole in it I was happy to see that I wasn't the only kid back then ruining his hockey cards. If only we knew to take of them ...
If we all knew they'd be worth money, we'd all have 100+ Gretzky rookies in mint condition...we all played with our cards, that's why they're worth so much.....
I don't know why, but I grew up in a Winnipeg suburb and one day when playing street hockey a guy came out wearing actual goalie equipment...we were told it was Bannermans....not the mask tho
Cards that would have been in consideration for my top 10 list would be: 1976-77 OPC Ken Dryden. Most of his cards he was pictured without his iconic mask so this one will always be a favourite of mine. 1975-76 OPC Rogie Vachon All-Star card. Again most cards from that era don't show the goalies in action so this one makes my list. One of the cases where you don't need artwork to make a mask iconic. 1980-81 OPC John Davidson. This card always reminded me of the famous Ken Danby painting. Davidson's card from the previous year is pretty nice too. 1979-80 OPC Wayne Thomas. Just a cool mask I remember liking as a kid and the only card I had of him wearing it. 1980-80 OPC Mike Liut. Another iconic mask without paint. His mask can been seen in a few other of his cards but I like the pose on his rookie card the best. 1983-84 OPC Pelle Lindbergh. He only had two cards before his tragic death. Both feature him wearing his mask. These are just off the top of my head so there may be more cool mask cards I am forgetting. If you want cards with goalies wearing masks I recommend checking out the 1974-75 Lipton Soup cards. It is a small set but I think every goalie in the set is pictured wearing their mask.
I like reading some of the comments,what about so and so? I think people are forgetting that the card he show's are from his collection. And a lot of masks people have mentioned,have never been on a hockey card.
frozen curmudgeon O, okay my mistake. Didn’t pay attention to opening statements. Thought the video was about, the coolest of all time. If it was, in my opinion, Dryden’s white mask of the early 70’s, has to be the coolest. As a kid, I use to draw that mask for all my goalies. Thought it was so cool 😎
@@Biblelover1963 Kinda wonder why this one didn't make it. www.ebay.com/itm/Gilles-Gratton-New-York-Rangers-Custom-Hockey-Card-1976-77/222619050922 Also Dan Bouchards flaming mask from the Altlanta days is why I've been a Flames fan since I was 8.
Paul FUN no Michael Myers mask was actual made from an old Captain Kirk mask they just dyed the skin and hair of the mask. Jason from Friday the 13th was inspired from old goalie masks though.
Doug Favell was the first goalie to paint his mask in the 1973-74 season playing for Toronto. He had a Maple Leaf painted over the top of his eye holes on the forehead of the mask.
@@harveyabel1354 Worse yet for the Leafs: They traded away Doug Favell's former tandem, a Mr. Bernard Marcel Parent. In the early Flyer days, my favorite was Favell. I still have one of his catching gloves. Seeing him inspired me to play goalie, and speaking of masks, I've worn all the different styles from the 60's to the modern style. But anyway, after Bernie was traded away to Toronto and wound up under the tutelage of Jaques Plante, he returned to the Flyers to be the preeminent goaltender of the NHL. Funny story: Bernie attends my church frequently. He says to me one night, "I could have used you playing in front of me." (I'm 6'3", and heavier than my old playing weight of 225). I told him, "Bernie, I was a better goalie than I was defenseman, and I was not a very good goalie!" Point of correction: Grant, Favell had his mask painted bright orange when he was in Philly. That was well before the 73-74 season, obviously.
@@jimtownsend7899 Fun story. Fave mask I used before the cage came in was the Plante model made in Magog, Quebec. Sigh...Toronto's the only place where the Leafs fall in the spring.. :(
@@harveyabel1354 😄Toronto and Philly have a lot of suffering in common, but you guys have a better sense of humor about it. I had 2 of those Plante masks. Both of them cracked right on the cheekbone when I took shots to the melon. I still have a scar on my check.
@@jimtownsend7899 Mine lasted no problem. Though I once took a shot off my blocker that felt kinda funny...turned out my stick actually broke! Most unusual. Don't forget, Mr. Rask of the Bruins was once in the Leafs system. Argh....
