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Blackmetalhappiness
Frankenstein was a goalie? Cool.
Resistance1000
One of the first NHL goalies to wear a mask painted lines on it where pucks had hit it to show where he'd have been cut open and had stitches without the mask. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Cheevers#Mask
Quebeker
Yet they were ridiculise when they started wearing masks…
barbarian818
I remember the era, and the later one when helmets became mandatory for new players but old pros could still skip them. Maskless goalies didn't mock goalies who put on a mask. It was old-timers and fans, mostly the fans.
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Remember in the 80s before neck guards, when that goalie (iirc) got his throat slit and almost bled out of the ice, because somebody slid towards him skates first, while he was diving forward to get the puck? Terrifying
UnattendedDeviant
"In 1966, Life Magazine had a make-up artist apply stitches and scars to Sawchuk's face to demonstrate all of the injuries his face sustained over the years. The make-up artist did not have enough room for everything"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Sawchuk
DVSBSTrD
Did he never get hit on his left side?
tentacularfleshscape
If he's a righty he might have consistently blocked with his right arm, turning his left side towards the goal?
thedudeman519
Damn this makeup looks better than what Marvel and Netflix gave us for S2 of The Punisher
BreakfastWithCountChocula
I raise you Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadians. The first NHL goalie to wear a mask.
ShimmerinStrider
Well when a 6oz frozen rubber puck is traveling at highway speeds, unless you're a lunatic, like us, you get out of the way.
barbarian818
Yeah, a pair of hockey skates are the mystic portal thru which the national animosity and all round rage we normally store in geese gets channelled back into a human host.
LincolnMarkLT
Can't forget Jacques Plante either
https://youtu.be/rcolbkAAgag
salunatics
ChronicBitRot
To be clear, this is a makeup job composite of all the injuries he received over the course of his career. https://time.com/3878486/terry-sawchuk-a-face-only-a-hockey-puck-could-love/
jenoween
I didn't even open the link. I read "a face only a hockey puck could love" and I lost it. 😂 😂
USSBigBooty
bippityboppitybuttsex
TL;DR the caption on the photo: Goalie Terry Sawchuk sports fake scars and wounds applied by a make-up artist to simulate injuries accumulated in 16 years of professional hockey, 1966.Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Uptoo11ven
I mean I get your point, but he still took all those shots and damageto the face, even though it was not all at once.
redrooster901
Yeah, but posting the image without the context that he is wearing makeup to hyperbolize the point, by making it seem like his face was like that on a regular basis, is misleading and a callout is merited.
Uptoo11ven
Yeah, like I said, I get the point.
DildoMussolini
Then what the fuck are you whining about, idiot
duktayp
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyanJ1eTNvazkyb3p4bDk3OTlkMGRkOGN1YjQycmY3M29oZjc0a3hxcCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/iSBKHcm0qEmZ2/giphy.gif
OhIfIMust
Okeczukwu
Oh look! It's Boris Karloff!
OhIfIMust
:goes berserk:
painterofdark
The Japanese realized many years ago that the face mask was essential. In kendo, taking a hit with a bamboo rod to the face is very unpleasant.
fastjeff
So, who was in net the last time the Leafs won the cup?
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Fuckin...Ghengis Khan. (Idk it was so long ago.)
fastjeff
CALAMOSCOPYJANE
Go Habs
firni
Yep!
barbarian818
"Love is...like a frozen puck to the head"
yrypics
The Weakerthans did a spoken piece called Elegy for Gump Worsley and the final bit goes,"If anyone asks, the inscription should read, 'My face was my mask.'"
psstuphere
That's called being Canadian...
contextisimportant
The men still have only half of a face protection while women and juniors have a full cage around their faces. And it shows ... in terms of teeth.
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
This looks malicious.
Kbantar
Still nothing on "Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann famously played the final 17 minutes of the 1956 FA Cup Final with a broken neck."
LordBrandonTheBold
They didn't have helmets or masks. What a crazy sport.
Rkfinecake
As a kid I was at a live AHL game and the maskless goalie got struck in the forehead by a slapshot. There was SO much blood. I think that was my introduction to live carnage.
ShimmerinStrider
To be serious for a moment. It was a different time for the sport as well. Shots rarely left the ice, standup goaltending was the norm because of that, stick technology wasn't anywhere as sophisticated, results in much slower shots and on and on and on. You still gotta be a crazy bastard to play goalie. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FPAlpha
I loved being a goalie ( not for hockey though, can't skate worth a damn) but for football and handball.
Loved being the last line of defence but i gotta tell you getting a fast ball hit your leg or arm stung HARD sometimes!
decarnatedame
And apparently they used scythes instead of sticks.
jurisdictions
Sid chopped a guy's finger off through his glove. They we're always scythes
LordBrandonTheBold
Not my boy Crosby. He was framed .
DrSharkbite
pasky080810
Made me laugh very much when I first saw the movie.
VincitQuiSeVincit
Old-time hockey!
STONES1975
great movie
ItaloCanadianYUL
Just a bit wide
GuitarGeorge
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante is the first player to consistently wear a mask. Here’s a Canadian Heritage Minute about it. For you non Canadians, these were short tv commercials that we used to air about historical moments in our country.
https://youtu.be/rcolbkAAgag?si=C70OScr3U6RXQSoB
OSRSSailing
My university bar had trivia nights on Wednesdays. Every year they would do heritage minutes as one of the themes and you had to get there super early to get a table. It was always the best one.
CaldariBob
It's how I learned about house hippos.
GuitarGeorge
HardyandRamanujan
Toast!
GuitarGeorge
Can you smell it?
PutItInNeutral
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1N3VpaXRtMmZxeWlwYzNkY2FlNG1yd2ZodTNwYnJydnhybjNsajkxaCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3ov9kbr4DoEUCJAWOc/200w.webp
lazybuthappy
When I was a child I saw a Spiderman + Punisher comic where the villain was a man with his face full of deep scars and almost no hair. His name: The Saw or something similar.
thedudeman519
Billy Russo AKA Jigsaw. The Punishers primary nemesis
thedudeman519
RUSSO!!!!!
PutItInNeutral
This guy gets it.
ItsaBeemer
Now do soccer players.
Trollero
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be in this footballer's shoes; he took two balls to the face /gallery/adding-insult-to-injury-bgd8WSq#850Ceac
duktayp
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyZTljbDRzNzJncjQ3YXU2N2YyM2JwemN6dDVsYnU3Z3JlYnlvMjl6eCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/aTefcd7QVc8dVafWYC/giphy.gif
ItsaBeemer
He's been shot, or a fly landed on him, you never know.
OhIfIMust
Haemaelaeinen
Have you ever seen a shin snap so one's heel touches their back of the knee? Fucking cunt.
ItsaBeemer
Oh you poor thing. Did I upset the poooor little baby for making fun of football players who dive and fake injury constantly. Grow up.
ReaperCDN
Context you fucking chimp. 99.9% of soccer "injuries" are guys going down holding their face when a gentle breeze wafts over their ankle.
imeatingpizzaandfuckit
I have actually. It was in wrestling, where competitors don’t fall over trying to draw a foul because they’re little shits.