Introduction

Legends

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Winter Sports

Water Sports

One of hockey’s greatest goaltenders, Jacques Plante (1929-1986) was also an innovator who was not afraid to go against the traditions of hockey. He was the first to wear a protective face mask on a permanent basis and, with his proactive style in and around the hockey net, he changed the way a goaltender played the position. The poems and letters written to his wife, during his second career as a coach, also reveal another aspect of his non-conventional personality within the world of professional hockey.

Poem