Word: pucking
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...Jacques Plante was seen as a wimp. After the Montreal Canadiens goalie was struck in the face by a flying puck while playing against the New York Rangers on Nov. 1, 1959, the future Hall-of-Famer refused to return to the ice sans protection. Much to the scorn of his coach and fans, Plante returned from the locker room with a crude home-made fiberglass mask in place. Though coach Toe Blake wanted Plante to remove the mask after his wounded face healed, the Canadiens rattled off an 18-game win streak, despite Plante's obscured face. The complaints...
...Modern masks have come a long way from Plante's first design. In the 1970s, goalies started to replace the eyeholes with steel cages, improving a goalie's ability to see the puck (a major criticism of Plante's original design) and extending the fiberglass to protect the top of the head and neck. Today's goalie sports a mask that includes protection for the throat and is fashioned often from carbon fiber or Kevlar for added protection against flying pucks. The design has even crossed sports: in the past decade many baseball catchers have begun sporting hockey-style masks...
Killorn scored his second of the night off a power play when the puck popped up between him and an open net to give the Crimson the lead at 12:40 in the second...
Less than three minutes later, Leblanc scored his first career goal off an exchange with Killorn that also came during a power play opportunity. The rookie blasted the puck over O’Neill’s shoulder and into...
...McGill player was going for a long pass, but Farni read the play and intercepted the puck in the neutral zone, scoring on a breakaway...