habdynasty
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- May 26, 2008
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Its not about sticks, its about pucks.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
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.Its not about sticks, its about pucks.
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.