GLOUCESTER — Joe Bertagna knows about stitches. He’s seen plenty in his more than half century in hockey. Before his first game as Harvard goalie, he expanded his face mask so he could see better.

We’ve entered the platinum age of goalie mask designs. It’s like television ... Gerry Cheevers had his stitches. Ed Belfour had his matching eagles. Today, goalies change masks almost as ...

The goaltender defied the NHL when he took to the ice wearing the mask during Native American Heritage Night in St. Paul on ...

Mr. Riggs is a goalie ... mask and watched as the ice filled with blood pooling right in front of me. The puck lodged so hard in the cage the police and EMT could not get it out. Well, 50 stitches ...

The goalie mask, at least the retro-styled fiberglass types from the 60s and 70s, hasn’t been used in hockey for about 50 years — it’s instead made many more appearances in horror movies ...

Plante reasoned after hundreds of facial stitches, should wear masks for protection. The Quebec native changed the way goalies played and looked. While Plante wasn't the first goalie to wear a ...

It wasn’t a dirty play, just a routine hockey moment — but it happened at the worst possible time as his face was pushed directly into the skate of goalie ... astonish 75 STITCHES to close ...

Former Boston Bruins goalie Gerry Cheevers is believed to be the first to paint his mask. In the late 60's sometime, Cheevers began crudely painting fake stitches on his white mask where he had ...