The name of Gerry Schultz is well known among goalies from Western Canada. This Edmonton mask maker fitted pros and amateurs in the Edmonton area throughout the Sixties and Seventies. His clients included WHA and NHL goalies such as Ken Brown, Chris Worthy, Jack Norris and most notably Grant Fuhr (his first Oilers masks).

Gary,

      I found a couple of newspaper pictures of my first mask that I wore in 1960-61 when I played with the University of Alberta. You asked if I had pictures of my original mask so I am sending them as attachments with this email.

       This particular mask was smooth as it was a hand lay-up using about 10 layers of 10 ounce cloth. This is the only mask I made exclusively of "cloth." Succeeding masks were made up of combinations of materials (cloth, mat, rovings, kevlar, dynel) and I started using a vacuum mold process in 1962. With the exception of about four or five  epoxy masks I used polyester resins with flexible additive. I experimented with a cage, on a fiberglass shell idea, in 1962-63 but gave up as a decent cage was not available to me at that time.

      I notice on your website that I am still listed as being in the modern era. I believe I was the first goalie in western Canada to wear a mask.

Yours truly,

G. Schultz

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