A NOSTALGIC NICK OF TIME
IF GEORGES VEZINA HAD hopped onto his Penny Farthing time machine in 1918 and pedalled 100 years into the future, he might have a question or 43 about the job he helped pioneer. Today’s goaltenders are ahead by more than a century in regards to equipment, style, rules, everything. Check out the photos of Lorne Chabot and Roy Worters on pgs. 59 and 62. No blockers, no trappers – pucks weren’t caught. They have glorified twigs as sticks and toilet paper for padding. Early-era goalies couldn’t drop to the ice. Most strikingly, you can see their faces; a mask was something worn to costume parties. Naturally, nobody wants to turn back the hands of time. We’re blessed with an abundance of tremendous athletes who routinely make plays that flood YouTube with save-of-the-season…