Bruh the guys who got hit in the face without masks/helmets are god damned legends. They command respect

everyone lookin like theyre in a slipknot cover band

I can’t believe they played without helmets/masks that’s so crazy

The The old goalie masks used to scare me

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

Someone would literally die if not wearing a mask these days

It's true what they say, you have to be absolutely crazy to be a goalie.

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.

It's shocking to see people tending goal with no mask or helmet at all playing ice hockey. That is INSANE! That puck is moving fast.

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

the original mask looks like a cross between hannibal lecter and jason voorhies

I was scared of those old school 1950-1970 hockey masks as a kid, even before Halloween / Jason movies

"HEY BART, WANNA' SEE MY NEW CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK!!!"

As an artist and hockey fan, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a goalie just so I could paint my mask. :)

2:05 and that’s how Jason’s iconic mask was started

SPORTSNET I gotta tell ya... you guys really came through with this most noteworthy information... thanks for posting!!!

0:35 Dude he looks like “Gordon Ramsay!”

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 !!

0:35 Gordon Ramsay in a mask from the 50´s

I remember playing high school hockey with a home made mask in 73-74

You could do a 10 part series in this topic. So many stories. Each mask is a story.

this is not the evolution of masks, it's 3 minutes video on the first time a goalie decided to wear a mask

these guys were ral men..crazy but tough...and for such little money and hopefully the Game does not ever forget these guys..

Not sure how much the puck has changed it terms of firmness but even then I bet it was hard as a rock. Those guys were brave

Love the videos keep adding please

F that I’d play football back then 😂 still love hockey 🥶🔥

Why does older stuff looks so damned scary Like wtf

Good vid. I would have liked to hear more about the current masks too.

Those old goalies had balls of steel!!!

Bobby Hall was clocked at 118.......? Sorry Shea Weber...I guess.

Wow the mask sure has come along way!!!

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...

It's crazy how safety was a back burner thought back in the early days. Not just with hockey, but about anything.

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.

"here, we'll put this thin sheet of glass between your eyeballs and the puck. what's the worst that could happen?"

The evolution of the goalie mask 101 Erly days: Face A little bit later: scary things A little bit later: Cage things Now: A goalie mask

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.

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

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 .

I love this kind of stuff.

In the fiberglass model masks. The eye holes look big enough for the puck to go through an hit your eye.

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...

Terry Sawchuck had a face of steel.

I miss the osgood style mask

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!

I love old hockey masks. Scary.

This video was so damn wholesome

Not that safe anymore, but they looked cool AF. The Fuhr Oiler masks just looked otherworldly.

You gotta remember it was a penalty to lift the puck off the ice

2:05 Jason Mask

No one ever thought they were smart in the first place, but how crazy were they to go that long without a mask?

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.

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.

Everybody gangsta till someone says “ch ch ch ah ah ah”

The mast at 1:11 looks like Corey Taylor's first mask 😂

I'm a goalie in box lacrosse and the masks we use these days they hurt so I use a field helmet because it's more stronger and has more pertection.

The early goalies had some balls of steel

Can we all agree that if the goalie masks (Jason Voorhees style) were safer that they'd be the coolest one's ever

So crazy to think goalies didn't wear a mask in the NHL!

Spooky to Not spooky

Good video

like you're going to leave out that the first goalie mask was invented and worn at Camp Crystal Lake in 1980.....

Hasek with the best cage ever made

I have an old mask signed and worn by Gerry Cheevers. I will sell it one day and even had it on EBay but had no takers at the 30 grand price tag :(

I like the helmet and cage

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.

When he retires dad you looked scary in the game ,plante I need a time machine to show you the new masks. Son

Legends.

Plante saves a lot of life’s tbh

I'm sure Ben Bishop is sure happy has a newer mask instead of one of those old ones after taking that shot from colton parayko lol

Still hurts like hell, I took a puck off the cage once at point blank range and I went deaf for about half a minute.

Ppl getting nightmares after watching a hockey game back in the day.

Is this a re-upload, I swear I saw this before. Anyone else..?

Those were the hockey days, to bad it cant go back to then...

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

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.

**Jason liked this video**

Jason Voorhees and Casey Jones bring me here

Those Jason hockey masks creep me out.

Almost Forgot to watch this today

A helmet has saved MY life. A strong shot dented my helmet cage, and if I wasn't wearing a helmet, I'd be dead

R.I.P Jaques Plante and Terry Sawchuck

I never even realized that they didn’t where masks back then. Dang😕

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It's ironic but if Jason played Hockey, he wouldn't wear a mask

Then, a slasher is born...

So this is where Jason Voorhees got his mask from

Who else came here for Jason voorhies mask ?

0:35 Gordon Ramsay in the 50’s

Hockey players are as tough as nails man

Now with Shea Weber and Patrik Laine in the NHL the old goalie mashes would feel like a bullet

I'm not even a hockey fan I just saw this in my recommended

Yes

They should bring these back with new technology the kevlar and some wire cage built in the mask itself. Be cool to see em back.

Everyone looking like friday the 13th with those old masks jeez

Dope

Imagine playing v weber wearing no mask... I'd die of fear alone.

2:04 Jason's Hockey Mask

Jason voorhees aproves

Imagine Jason Voorhees wearing modern day hockey mask