The hockey mask turned up outside of sport, too: ... Goalie Gerry Cheevers decorated his mask with stitches every time it got hit during his time in goal in the 1970s.

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The Utah Hockey Club winger — despite a broken nose, nine stitches and a new bubble cage attached to his helmet — logged the second-most ice time of all forwards with 17:56, had two shots and ...

GLOUCESTER — Joe Bertagna knows about stitches. He’s seen plenty in his more than half century in hockey. Before his first game as Harvard goalie, he expanded his face mask so he could see better.

He left the ice and needed an astonish 75 STITCHES to close the wound. For most of us that would be enough to take a week off work, but Barron had returned by the start of the second period.

— World Hockey Report (@worldhockeyrpt) April 19, 2023 The 24-year-old Barron headed for treatment in the dressing room and returned wearing a full cage face mask on his helmet.