My Picks for the top 5 NHL Goalie Masks

I saw a similiar blog to this last week in which I guy picked his top five masks from the NHL this year and I thought I'd follow suit and pick mine. This is obviously all personal prefrence, but I picked what I felt we're the top five coolest masks from 2009-2010.


5) Cristobal Huet - The mask Huet had painted for the Hawks was very similiar to the mask Jeff Hacket wore for Chicago in the ninties. The Indian Head dress fits so well with the Hawks uniforms. The dream catcher on the bottom is cool touch too.

4) Semyon Varlamov - This mask was sweet as Varly took some symbolism from both Russian and American culture and meshed them together. One one side he has the crest of Russia with the Russian flag. On the other side of the mask is Mount Rushmore with an eagle above. One the back side he has both and American and Russian flag. Playing in America's capital and being form Russia was good inspiration for the mask.



3) Curtis Mcelhinny - Okay so this is a bit more based on what I think is cool on a mask ( this whole post is) but I think this is probably one of the coolest masks in the last few years. The integration of the skulls into the flames just was done really well by the artist.



2) Nikolai Khabibulin - Taking his normal design Khabibulin added some cool things to make it more Edmenton themed. He replaced the usual bell tower from the Kremlin and replaced with an Oil Rig. Also the eagles are now clutching the former maskes of Grant Fuhr.




1) Vesa Toskala - The Skull on Toskala's mask is just a really cool paintjob. He's had the same design since he joined the league with San Jose. This is again all about what I think is cool, but for me, Toskala's mask is pretty sick.