Overtime Auction #10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/27/2007
In February of 1977, a puck struck the eye of Gerry Desjardins, a goalie with the Buffalo Sabres, causing severe hemorrhaging. This event helped launch the movement in favor of the "bird-cage" style mask popularized in Europe by USSR goalie Vladislav Tretiak during the 1972 Canada-Russia “Summit Series”. The next year, the Canadian Standards Association declared molded masks unsafe and began certifying only cage-style masks. The shift to helmet and cage was accelerated after the Flyers’ Bernie Parent suffered a career-ending eye injury when he was struck with an errant stick in 1979. Vintage pro-style mask was purchased back in ’81 directly from pro-mask maker/artist Ed Cubberly and dates from the infancy era of the “bird-cage” masks. Thick fiberglass mask has Cubberly’s trademark “C” on each side, at ear’s level, and has a painted Irish Shamrock on the forehead. The interior of the mask has the vintage padded protection residues and the mask is missing its back plate otherwise it remains in superb condition. Cubberly produced masks for professional goaltenders such as Mike Richter of the NY Rangers, Tommy Soderstrom of the Philadelphia Flyers, Don Beaupre of the Washington Capitals, Curtis Joseph of the St. Louis Blues and many others. This superb vintage “bird-cage” goaltender mask is from a renowned and innovative mask-maker and will be a great addition to any goalie mask collection/display.
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