Why don't goalies wear the hasek-style mask anymore?

[habdynasty]

 

[AintLifeGrand]

bump...there are far too many Dave Art POS' and not enough rad Hasek/Osgood/Thomas buckets

 

[Halakitlikethat]

 

[IamNotADancer]

I have one and it is heavy as shit.

 

[HansonBro]

My mask if anyone cares lol

 

[Seanaconda]

Its funny a lot of these posts mention safety but have cat eye masks in pictures which has a huge safety concern of the stick fitting through the eye holes and goalies getting pokes or slashed in the freaking eyes

 

[tp71]

Its funny a lot of these posts mention safety but have cat eye masks in pictures which has a huge safety concern of the stick fitting through the eye holes and goalies getting pokes or slashed in the freaking eyes

Its not about sticks, its about pucks.

 

[Seanaconda]

Its not about sticks, its about pucks.

Ah they should have tighter cages to protect from sticks anyways. Keumper was effectively taken out of the playoffs just a few months ago because they leave those big ass holes for convenience to the goalie.

 

[Zobitembois]

Speaking about unusual helmet/cages, Drew Mac Intyre had is fair share :

 

[Captain97]

Cages are simply attached to a regular helmet, and thus were generally poorly designed and angled. Because of that it wasn't as effective for protecting against pucks compared to full-on goalie masks.

Goalie masks are designed to take pucks to the head as shots can come from anywhere, hence the smooth design you see on the store shelves. It's like a jet wing where rather than taking the full force of air/a puck flat, it's supposed to slide around it or ricochet.

The old masks blocked the puck rather than deflect it, which causes more force to a goalie's head.

Came to say this, new mask are designed to deflect pucks better and reduce shock on the head.

 

[TheOtherOne]

They retired it.

Imagine thinking yourself good enough to wear the same style mask as Hasek