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Higgins's mask is lightweight and ventilated but does not obstruct a goalie's vision. Because of these advantages, over 12 NHL netminders, including Boston's Ed Johnston and Gerry Cheevers, have chosen his design...
Higgins became a professional mask-maker at the age of 54, when he decided to leave his plumbing job. "I just decided I wanted to use my hobby (making molds and casts) as my business," he said...
...special technique for making masks was known when Higgins set up business in 1969 at his Norwood home. Since making his first mask in 1962 for his son Neil, now a junior goalie for Boston College, he had tried different ways of fitting fiberglass to face molds...
...last two years Higgins experimented by trial and error and finally developed a 16-hour procedure for making a mask which never wears...
...step in fitting a mask is making a mold of the goalie's face. The goalie wears a woman's stocking over his face, with a hole cut out for breathing through the mouth. Higgins puts vaseline and them plaster on the covered face...