--Boundary (ID bkY9LzEArQg5YkNcFViSqA) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN My son, who is a goalie (or I should say GHOULIE, in keeping with the season) for his high school team and uses one of the new style goalie masks. In fact I am starting to see more of these types of helmets being used by the kids who are playing in goal in our league. The particular mask he uses is made by Badger, and the catalog he ordered it from stated that the mask was HECC approved. The catalog also had other goalie helmets of the same style that weren't HECC approved and this was stated by the ad for those helmets. In all of the various catalogs he has received they usually state whether the helmet is HECC approved The main difference I saw on the masks that were HECC approved and non-HECC approved was the cage. The non-HECC approved masks had a cage with a "cat's eye" type opening, while the approved masks had a conventional cage with square openings of about "1 inch by 1 inch". But not knowing what constitutes HECC approval versus non-approval I won't carry this point any further. He recently received a catalog from Don Simmons which specifically stated that certain cages weren't HECC approved. Mike Dujmovic [log in to unmask] may not have bee --Boundary (ID bkY9LzEArQg5YkNcFViSqA)--