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Flashback: NHL's first helmet/visor
posted by Dave Stubbs at 10h35 EST on Jan 21
Elmer Lach's helmet/visor invention, banned from play by NHL president Clarence Campbell.
Photo courtesy Elmer Lach
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Dave Stubbs has been a sportswriter since 1976, which was roughly a decade after he wore the first of many holes through the knees of his jeans playing nets in road hockey (using a modified butterfly popularized by Hall of Famer Glenn Hall). He still has the welts to show on his shins from that rotten, frozen orange ball.
Stubbs kept thick hockey scrapbooks filled with game summaries and Gazette and Montreal Star stories, collected dozens of Bee Hive Corn Syrup photos and put a fortune of hockey cards through the spokes of his bikes. First book ever owned: Scrubs On Skates, the classic by Scott Young (Neil's dad).
Stubbs's fantasy is to travel back in time to the 1950s and watch the great Canadiens dynasty that won five consecutive Stanley Cups. Or a decade earlier, to watch Elmer Lach centre Rocket Richard and Toe Blake on the fearsome Punch Line. Or at least to get Rogie Vachon into the Hockey Hall of Fame – where he belongs.
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Didn't realize Mr. Lach was of Swedish descent....
Oh c'mon, at least one of you out there was thinking it! JK
Happy Birthday Mr. Lach!!
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Wow, thick visor. Looks like something that Bubbles would wear.
Happy Birthday Elmer!
He's a dear old man.
"love cannot drown truth, Nefertiti"
Happy Birthday Champ.
Happy Birthday Elmer You still look GREAT
A lot of the posters on Habs I/O in 2010 would probably crticize him for not being tough enough and demand he be traded. That's the prevailing mentality here these days. Whatever happens, they all know better!
Elmer Lach is a classic.
looks very football-esque!
would that be because its actually a 'football' helmet from that era retrofitted with a jaw protector?
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