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Before The Goalie Mask
by Paul on 12/12/06 at 10:53 AM ET
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from the Las Vegas Sun,
Mike McKenna, who has been outstanding for the Wranglers this season, owes plenty to former netminders such as Clint Benedict, Jacques Plante and Gerry Cheevers. Otherwise, McKenna might look like Glenn Hall.
A few years ago, McKenna met Hall, known as “Mr. Goalie” during a professional hockey career that spanned from 1952 to 1971. In 1998, Hall was listed at No. 16 on a Hockey News list of the game’s 100 greatest players.
Hall, now 75, mostly played between the pipes without a mask.
“His face was just mangled,” McKenna said of his meeting Hall. “Without a mask, your face ends up looking like hamburger.”
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