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Nov. 1, 1959: Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first NHL goalie to wear a mask regularly after catching a puck in the face from Andy Bathgate. His molded, fiberglass model is ridiculed, but Plante does not give in to long-held cultural bias against masks on goalies. ...more
November 5, 2007
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