Coolest helmet...?

Question

People say you can alway tell about a person by their appearance. Can the same be said for goalies and their helmets....

AND

What is the coolest hockey helmet (NHL, AHL, what ever) that you have ever seen....

PS pictures would be awesome!

Answer 1

Ray Emerys boxing theme

http://www.goaliesarchive.com/masks/emer...

Dan Blackburn

http://www.goaliesarchive.com/masks/blac...

Patrick Lalime

http://www.goaliesarchive.com/masks/lali...

Answer 2

http://www.kempshockey.com/masks2007/ite...

http://www.theoriginalsix.com/wp-content...

MY FAVORITE:

http://img.inlinewarehouse.com/ProductIm...

Answer 3

My favorite helmet is Manny Legace

http://cdn.nhl.com/images/media/masks/we...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Answer 4

Hannu Toivanen's Denis Lemeuix Tribute Mask

Gilles Gratton tiger mask

Ed Belfour classic eagle Mask

Blaine Lacher bruins mask

any mask tim thomas has

truco's hulk mask

Wayne Stephenson - Flyers mask

Raycrofts ode to the Leafs Mask

Antero Niitymaki's Phantom of the Opera and Gangster masks.

Gerry Cheevers/Steve Shields stiches mask

Brian Hayward shark mask

Andy Moog bear mask

John Vanbiesbroucks beezer maskhttp://www.hockeybuzz.com/boards/thread....

Lalime's marvin the martian mask

Johan Hedberg's mask

kari Lehtonen's kill bill and ff mask

http://gaming.instablogs.com/images/fina...

Ron Hextals quebec nordiques mask

peter budaj's avs mask.

dunc wilson vanucks mask. wowie. simplest mask ever

http://www.hockeymasks.com/masks/Dunc-Wi...

khabibulins wall mask

Answer 5

Dominik Hasek has the greatest helmet ever. It's like a painted bucket.

Dominik Hasek.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/valorfaerie...

Martin Prusek has a similar helmet.

http://www.hockeygoalies.org/bio/images/...

Answer 6

I like Carey Price's helmet "theme."

However instead of having Garth Brooks on one side and George Strait on the other as he does, I would opt for Ozzy Osbourne on one side and the Black Label Society logo on the other.

Answer 7

I like Vesa Toskala's.  He said he found the picture in a tattoo booklet.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/268/t...

Budaj's is funny.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7517/...

I think it's cool that Giguere found a way to make a Duck look scary...Sorta.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6725/...

Nabokov's is cool too.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6084/...

Thibault's is nice.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9653/...

Answer 8

coolest player helmet: Easton Stealth S 17

and Goalie helm: Martian Broduer just because it is original, no hockey game has yea to replicate it and he honors his kids on the back of the helmet

Answer 9

Eddie Rules

http://www.eyecandyair.com/goaliemasks/b...

Answer 10

Stephen Valiquette from the Rangers-

http://www.lcshockey.com/content/valique...

i love his whole spiderman theme!

Answer 11

Coolest helmet/mask..hm...good question.

I have always liked:

Marty Turco's mask:

http://cdn.nhl.com/stars/bc/images/image...

Curtis Joseph's mask:

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/72866690....

John Vanbiesbrouck's masks:

http://mattgunn.files.wordpress.com/2007... (New York Rangers)

http://www.r-b21.com/single/image/goods_... (Florida)

Ilya Bryzgalov's mask:

http://www.theoriginalsix.com/wp-content...

Evgeni Nabokov's mask:

http://cdn.nhl.com/images/media/masks/we...

There have been so many, it is hard too chose. But out of current goalies, I personally like these ones.

Answer 12

Stephen Valiquette of the New York Rangers...

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/7950736...

Marc Andre Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins...

http://cdn.nhl.com/images/media/masks/ea...

Rick DiPietro of the New York Islanders...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006...

Mikael Tellqvist of Team Sweden...

http://cdn.nhl.com/images/media/masks/we...

No longer in the NHL, but had cool helmets,

Garry Cheevers...

http://i.usatoday.net/sports/_photos/200...

Gillies Meloche

http://www.legendsofhockey.net/graphgall...

Wayne Stephenson

http://www.hockeymasks.com/profiles/36-W...

http://www.hockeymasks.com/profiles/57-W...

Answer 13

It's all a bit of opinion. In my mind a mask is best if it truely shows off the team colors with at least one logo from the team on it, preferably large. From there they can have their own creativity to it. Some of my favorites are Martin Brodeur's, and that's only because of how classic he has made it. I love to look of it with the jerseys and it's a team-first mask. I also liked what Josh Harding of the Minnesota Wild did last year, his mask was dedicated to breast cancer because his sister was battling with it. He put up a lot of awareness for the disease as well as raised a ton of money.

However, I want to let you know of a huge competition for the leagues best mask. There were over 64 masks in competition and they are slowly being eliminted in head-to-head voting. If you go to http://nhllogos.blogspot.com you can start voting to see which mask will be thought of as the best mask in the NHL. Currently 22 helmets remain including Ryan Miller, Olie Kolzig, Toska, Fleury, Dipietro and Turco.

Hope this helps.

Answer 14

Can I just say now that Ty Conklin's helmet is kind of scary? I understand that it is supposed to be a picture of his baby girl on the side, but ick. Anyway, I really like Carey Price's helmet.

http://www.habsinsideout.com/files/hio/i...