data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.hockey.53851 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
Subject: Re: Potvin's new goalie mask
From: [email protected]
Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
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In article , [email protected] (Allan Sullivan) writes:
> [email protected] writes:
>
>>I was wtahcing RIGHT GUARD HOCKEY WEEK on TSN yesterday and they had
>>a feature on this guy that does a lot (most?) of the masks for NHL
>>goalies. They talked about how they are made, what they are made of,
>>and the designs that are put on them, etc.
>
>>The best one of all was one he never talked about, he just held it up.
>>It has the current Leafs crest on the chin and an awesome looking
>>black panther on the forehead -- it *has* to be a new mask for Felix
>>Potvin, but he never said whose it was.
>
> Are you sure this program was current? I know that Grant Fuhr
> had a black panther on the forehead of his mask when he played with
> the Leafs.
It would seem logical that the mask is Potvins. His nickname is "The Cat",
which would go a long ways towards explaining the panther.
Of course, it could be an old story and the mask is Fuhrs, too.....
Alan