Now, for those of you that think all the good ideas are taken, look at the sport of ice hockey. It's more than 150 years old. The hockey (goalie) MASK is only 30 years old. Wouldn't you think that someone could have come up with it in the first 120 years? Finally one guy (Jacques Plante) got tired of getting hit in the face with the puck! Hello. And once again, necessity became the mother of invention. And he created the first hockey mask.