Comments on: Not Wearing a Hockey Goalie Mask on the Ice Can Leave One Always Ready for Halloween

By: ethan swindler

ethan swindler — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:34:03 +0000

terry sawchuck had my faverite talent and mask

By: symonsez

symonsez — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:59:26 +0000

When I think about it, I recall that I knew that was the case and I could have sworn that I had made that notation in the text. That was why I never actually commented on the veracity of the photo except that its obvious its from Life. However, I’m not sure why I did not make that notation, though I have a couple of ideas and they probably were along the same lines as the thinking of Life Magazine in addition to the idea that the particulars surrounding the photo weren’t particularly relevant to LaPlante’s story. How Life created the photo does not change the facts of LaPlante’s story and maybe I was thinking that going into such detail might take away from the point of the piece. However, in retrospect, for nothing more than honesty’s sake I should have probably made the notation..perhaps I wiill make an edit.

Thanx for the comment…very worthy of thought.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:35:44 +0000

I think it should be noted that the man in the picture from Life Magazine is Hall-of-Fame goaltender Terry Sawchuk, who admitted to having make-up artists accentuate what his face may have looked like if he himself had not donned the mask in the early 1960s.

By: shoreacres

shoreacres — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:48:15 +0000

I love that Plante knitted his own underwear. Heck, Rosie Greer did needlepoint. My mother started following his career once she discovered that.

Not only that, I once sold some antique iron quilt frame clamps to a businessman in New York, whose office overlooked the site of 9/11. After the attacks, he set up a quilting frame in his office. He, too, said it calmed his nerves.