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It’s a given now that hockey goalies skate into battle with full protective gear, including a mask, but that wasn’t a given until Montreal Canadiens’ goalie Jacques Plante’s nose was shattered by a slapshot in 1959.

With 200 stitches in his face, he agreed to return to play the next game only if he was allowed to wear a mask Historica Canada says he’d designed himself. Within a few years, it had become standard gear.