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Years Before Plante, Woman Used Goalie Mask To Protect Teeth
by Paul on 12/12/08 at 09:46 PM ET
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from Stewart Bell of the National Post,
I picked up a copy of The Hockey News the other day and there, on page 25, was an old black-and-white photograph of my grandmother, wearing goalie pads and a striped hockey sweater.
It described how, while playing for Queen’s University in 1927, my grandmother shocked fans by wearing a mask.
“The first hockey netminder interested in saving face looks to have been Elizabeth Graham,” the article reads. “It would appear the father of the goalie mask was in fact a woman.”...
Like a lot of innovators, my grandmother passed away before she was widely recognized for her contribution. Her role as the pioneer of the goalie mask was always family legend, but all of a sudden, she is now getting her due.
The Hockey Hall of Fame has named her one of a dozen “Notable Women Hockey Players,” and she is featured in a new book called Saving Face: The Art and History of the Goalie Mask, with a forward by the legendary Gerry Cheevers of the Boston Bruins.
more and if interested, you can purchase the book at Amazon.
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