Sanf
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Couple of weeks ago I was going around newspaperarchives and found bit of goaltender trivia.
The Montreal Gazette - Dec 18, 1903
I looked bit further that story. In Ottawa Citizen there was story about Toronto Marlboros public training were they mentions this.
Ottawa Citizen - Dec 16, 1903
Of course the story doesn´t tell was it actually Giroux who experimented with the mask (Toronto newspaperarchives gives hits from that winter with searches but I don´t have access to those). Allthough I do believe that is impossible to know who was the first to use "mask". I believe that as long as there is hockey played there has been various experiments with different kind of protections, but that might be the first time when "high profile" goaltender was seariously playing with the idea of wearing some sort of face/head protector in top level games.
Eddie Giroux
1903-1904 Toronto Marlboros
OHA senior champion
Stanley cup challenge with Marlboros
Toronto East vs. West All Star game (corrected from OHA all star game)
1904-1905 Rat Portage Thistles
Manitoba hockey association champion
Stanley cup challenge with Thistles
1905-1906 Kenora Thistles
MHA champion
1906-1907 Kenora Thistles
Manitoba Professional Hockey League champion
Stanley Cup winner with Thistles
Wikipedia article mentions that after that he retired. I do believe that he continued his career because there was goaltender Eddie Giroux playing in Ottawa city leagues after that. He was at one point considered to the job for the Ottawa Hockey Club CHA/NHA team goaltender.
The Montreal Gazette - Dec 18, 1903
A Toronto goal tend experimented with a baseball mask, but discarded it, finding a disadvantage in locating side shots.
I looked bit further that story. In Ottawa Citizen there was story about Toronto Marlboros public training were they mentions this.
Ottawa Citizen - Dec 16, 1903
Geroux wearing a padded hood, was in goal...
Of course the story doesn´t tell was it actually Giroux who experimented with the mask (Toronto newspaperarchives gives hits from that winter with searches but I don´t have access to those). Allthough I do believe that is impossible to know who was the first to use "mask". I believe that as long as there is hockey played there has been various experiments with different kind of protections, but that might be the first time when "high profile" goaltender was seariously playing with the idea of wearing some sort of face/head protector in top level games.
Eddie Giroux
1903-1904 Toronto Marlboros
OHA senior champion
Stanley cup challenge with Marlboros
Toronto East vs. West All Star game (corrected from OHA all star game)
1904-1905 Rat Portage Thistles
Manitoba hockey association champion
Stanley cup challenge with Thistles
1905-1906 Kenora Thistles
MHA champion
1906-1907 Kenora Thistles
Manitoba Professional Hockey League champion
Stanley Cup winner with Thistles
Wikipedia article mentions that after that he retired. I do believe that he continued his career because there was goaltender Eddie Giroux playing in Ottawa city leagues after that. He was at one point considered to the job for the Ottawa Hockey Club CHA/NHA team goaltender.
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