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Geplaatst: 24-12-2020 03:51:33 Onderwerp: Montreal Canadiens - NHL Design Face Masks Online Shop |
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This represents progress after talks cooled off the past several weeks because of a financial stalemate.
Considering the way the 2020-21 NHL season has gone -- or more accurately hasn't gone -- we have to look at all prospects and young players like we're grading on a curve. Many of these players have never gone this long between games in their entire playing careers. Some are closing in on their 10th straight month without any sort of competitive hockey. That's not conducive to development.
The only way the NHL is able to prevent more tooth loss is to mandate players to use a full cage face mask. But in the NHL that isn't going to happen any time soon.Vancouver Canucks
CheeversPhoto: 989 The DriveMontreal Canadiens
We don’t often mention the 90’s in matters of good or influential design, particularly when it comes to sports (*shudder*) but CuJo’s oil sploosh mask is still relevant almost two decades later. Jaroslav Halak commissioned an almost-replica of Joseph’s mask last season in Long Island with some tweaks made to update the design for the new millennium, and Ilya Bryzgalov used a similar orange splash design in his 2013-14 Oilers mask as well.
More Reading: HbD Masks #3: Jonas HillerFlorida Panthers
In saying all this, if the NHL is deadset on playing this season, do it in the US. I'd rather get this country back in working order so that kids of all ages can go back to playing hockey for the love of the game, not just seven teams of overpaid athletes whose owners need to fulfill contractual obligations in order to make more money on top of the millions and billions of dollars upon which they already have built their kingdoms. The hollowness of the NHL asking the various levels of the Canadian government to allow them to do something which the citizens living in those jurisdictions cannot is proof enough that the NHL has lost sight of what it means to be good community partners.Columbus Blue Jackets |
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