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Once vilified, dissembles now are tools of the trade Friday, 02.13.2009 / 9:00 AM / draped Men By John McGourty - NHL.com Staff Writer Adding the esthetic edge Former NHL goaltender Jim Rutherford, the Carolina Hurricanes general manager since 1994, was on the dandy edge in two regards. He was the first to fail the Greg Harrison mask that eventually came to be the NHL standard. And, he was the first to invest his mask with an NHL team logo. Rutherford broke in with the Detroit going travel during the 1970-71 season, and was traded to Pittsburgh by Detroit with Jack Lynch for Ron Stackhouse, Jan. 17, 1974. After 2 1/2 seasons there, he was traded back to Detroit and manned the Red Wings net for six seasons before being traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1980. Toronto traded him to the Los Angeles Kings later that season and he returned to the Red Wings for superstar game in 1982-83 before retiring. I was the first to reveal Gregs masks because we both worked at a sports camp and he approached me intimately trying his mask, Rutherford recalled. I was wearing a Lefty Wilson mask at the time. Greg was a young, am phone numberious guy. I wore his mask and that got his railway line going. Neither the Wilson nor the Harrison mask deflected the impact of the puck. They were designed to prevent getting cut.

If you got hit with those masks, there was nothing to absorb the shock of the puck except for what was inside the mask, which was your face! I wore that mask for a long time, most of my career, until a new mask came kayoed in the late 1970s or early 1980s, Rutherford said. I changed when I was playing for the Los Angeles Kings. It was a mask that sat let on a little further from your face, but was still form-fitting, or face-fitting. When you were hit, the blow was distributed around your head, rather than where you were hit. It had a little bit of a wire in front of your eyes but you got used to it pretty quickly. I cant remember the manufacturer. I only wore that... If you want to get a full essay, pose it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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