With Gerry Cheevers and several other legends from the “Big Bad Bruins” era on site for Saturday’s showdown by Boston and Montreal, Linus Ullmark paid tribute to the Hall-of-Fame netminder with a new custom goalie mask.
Cheevers, who helped Boston clinch two Stanley Cup titles in 1970 and 1972, etched himself into hockey history with his trademark mask — with the stitches representing all of the damage the tenacious netminder would have taken without that extra layer of defense covering his visage.
Ullmark also has the names of several other Bruins legends from that chapter of team history inscribed on his helmet.