you forget when goalie masks used to be regular player helmets and had a big metal grid style cage. pretty much what kids where now

5:50 Greg Harrison and Dave Dryden made the first hybrid birdcage and shell mask in 1978. Gilles Meloche and Chico Reash both wore them in the 80s. Patrick Roy wore one in his rookie year in 1986 (the white one with the Jofa pads and gloves). You pretty much never saw the Full Flush mask (the ones with eyeholes) by this time as many like Billy Smith et co went with the birdcage and helmet combo,, the last few going away in the late 80s like that guy who was on Detroit but more played for their farm team. Many were also abandoning the Helmet/birdcage combo by then (but not nearly all of them, guys like Irbe, Hasek, Healy, Osgood, and a few others still sticking with their Jofa Cheater and Klima combo or the SK2000 with either an HM30 or 50. Even Hasek eventually went to Warwick and had them make him that custom he wore in the late days at Buffalo then Detroit. As well going into the 90s there was a shift towards more Synthetic materials which made them about a third of the traditional weight as they were known to amass water in them over the season, getting up to 10 lbs each - Emerging brands like Win-Lite/Aeroflex and Vic were some early examples in pro gear of this kind (now this is common place).

You completely omit evolution of equipment in Europe. For example they were using helmet+cage combination from early seventies there, but you mention 1988 Esposito cage as a novelty… Head protection in North America aleays was like 10-20 years behind Europe.

I like CCM and BAUER

Tony Esposito had NOTHING to do with wire on masks ! Russian Goalie TRETIAK in 1972 was the first to show and wear a wire mask attached to his helmut ! Before Espo was Phil Myre and a few other NHL goalies were the first to then attach the wire mask to the regular fibre glass masks that we see and are used by every goalie today !

A 2 dollar fee? I think you mean fine.

My first 'pro' goalie pads were Cooper GP59s, cow leather stuffed with deer hair. Chest-arm pads were wool felt with little rubber patches sewn onto elbows. They were heavy, got soaked and smelly from sweat but would last a century. First mask was a catcher's cage. No foam, no plastic, no carbon fiber sticks with varying flex. Couldn't believe the difference in weight from the Cooper to the Vaughn foam. Better living through chemistry!

Bud said Eddie cheevers

You forgot to to indicate that the first proper cage mask where the helmet masks introduced by Soviet Goalie Tretiak when they played against Montreal in 1975 they were more primitive; goalies wearing this masks was mike Vernon, ken wregget among others, then the mask became the fibre glass modern styles we see today

It was the WHA that started the cage era. Needing talent the WHA brought European players. That is when I first saw goalies with helmets and cages. Much safer.

Eddie Cheever is an American fotmer F1 , Indy Car and Prototype Sports Car racer. 😆

Curved goalie sticks were in the NHL by the late 60's- early 70's. I went to a small day hockey camp in 1973 that was run by Billy and Gordie Smith. Billy (yes THAT Billy Smith) had a curved goalie stick.

Today's goalers look like they are wearing a bunch of Sealy Posturepedics

This moron needs to add non mechanical voice to this bit

A couple of corrections 1) plastic wasn't invented till 1907, so it couldn't have been used in goalie eq prior to that as stated, 2) the correct name is "Gerry Cheevers" not Eddie, 3) Teiji Honma, of the 1936 Japanese Olympic Ice Hockey team, wore a goalie mask with a cage over his face and eyes. However, it is a nice overview. I started playing goal in 1970 and still play today. I've been more of a "Gump Worsley" model of a goalie, rather than a Ben Bishop model.

reebok twigs... LOL.

You did not mention,that Vaughn,and Brown,and others,made a super light arm and chest protecter! I used the old felt and wool arm pads and chest protecter,and when these came out in the early 80s they were a god send.I had many a bruise,some would bleed ,the equipment I used in the 1960s compared to the 1980s was so much better,lighter,and protective.The Micron goalie skates were heavy,buy very protective!

I like the 70s goalies

Rangers, Stevie Bakers empire state building mask was incredible....

1890 Plastic goalie pads 60 years before plastic was invented?😂😂😂

Thanks Zachary Quinto. That was fun and informative

@Adam Manji How the hell can you talk and show goalie masks and not show Ed Belfours(the best goalie mask ever)????

Eddie Cheevers ha

I remember Andy Brown as one of the last NHL goalies not wearing a mask…

Jacques plante first wore a mask on. Nov. 1, 1959. That wasn't a playoff game!

Today's goalie equipment is ridiculous! It's the equivalent of athletes on steroids!

what team do you play on

Tretyak started to use the primar version of the modern hockey goalie mask already in 70s fir the USSR. NHL lagged really behind

Interesting subject. Too bad you read a script like a 5th grader about to wet his pants in front of the class

How much actual protection was the precage solid mask.

3:50 Gerry Cheevers, not Eddie

No plastic in the 19th century. Sorry.

2:09 I dont know why but those old school blockers always reminded me of ice cream sandwich bars.

in the start u said they had shin pads that were made of leather and or plastic but plastic wasnt invented yet in the 1800s

It’s Gerry Cheevers not Eddy

Nothing about the evolution and advancement of arm and torso protection? Sad.

Esposito retired In ‘84 so he couldn’t have first wore the hybrid mask in ‘88! His number was retired in ‘88

I get wanting larger pads, however personally I wear one size smaller. My style requires as much movement as possible so I need as little bulk as possible. My only complaint about my leg pads is they need to add more cushioning to the landing area for your knees. I get really bad bruising on my knee caps from dropping unless I have volleyball knee pads on under my leg pads. I'm sure they could come up with some type of internal system that cradles and cushions the knee cap area.

GO HABS GO!!!!!!!

still think equipment is to big . i miss the old pads from the 80,s todays goalies look like robots they all look the same in the 80s you could tell a goalie from a distance depending on helmet or mask and equipment

Does anyone know why/when tuuk blades went from black to white?

Who is Eddie Cheevers?

i don't mind the thick goalie pads but these pads are way too wide and covers too much, isn't there a way to reduce the width of the pads while not making then thinner for protection?

Keep posting

It was Gerry, not Eddie, Cheevers that had the mask with stitches drawn on it

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This is the only video u made?

Who the hell is Eddie Cheevers? Its Gerry Cheevers.

This narrator has the most unlistenable voice. Had to stop after 2 minutes.

Great Video…. id love to see a video on the evolution of Goaltending and not just on the Equipment or the Mask’s. Awesome video, thanks brother