Mask Madness Match-ups

Yes, I'll refer to it as Mask Madness every once and a while just for you guys. But here we go with the preliminary- and first-round match-ups for the 2008 NHL Tournament of Goalie Masks. I'm having a little bit of difficulty building the actual bracket. So until I figure something out, you'll have to deal with it in text format.

First, there will be the Preliminary Round, made up of 4 polls. They will start Monday and be as follows:
1 | TURCO (black) vs TURCO (white)
Here you'll choose between Marty Turco's home and road masks.
2 | RAMO (a) vs RAMO (b)
Here you'll decide on which of Karri Ramo's two masks goes into the full tournament.
3 | DENIS vs CLEMMENSEN
4 | HOWARD vs RASK

Then comes Round One. There are 32 polls comprising that group, divided into two sides. The first list is the group on the left side of the bracket.

1 | MILLER vs HALAK
2 | ROLOSON vs ERSBERG
3 | BRYZGALOV vs TELLQVIST
4 | KOLZIG vs GRAHAME
5 | BRODEUR vs THIBAULT
6 | HUET vs NORRENA
7 | CONKLIN vs HEDBERG
8 | EMERY vs RAMO
9 | TOSKALA vs ELLIS
10 | KIPRUSOFF vs HASEK
11 | LUONGO vs CLOUTIER
12 | JOSEPH vs VALIQUETTE
13 | FLEURY vs ANDERSON
14 | NIITTYMAKI vs HOLMQVIST
15 | LECLAIRE vs MASON
16 | THEODORE vs DENIS/CLEMMENSEN

And on the right side of the bracket is this group:

1 | BACKSTROM vs RAYCROFT
2 | WARD vs HARDING
3 | TURCO vs OSGOOD
4 | KHABIBULIN vs DUBIELEWICZ
5 | VOKOUN vs SANFORD
6 | GARON vs GERBER
7 | LALIME vs TOIVONEN
8 | GIGUERE vs AULD
9 | LEGACE vs WEEKES
10 | DiPIETRO vs HILLER
11 | LUNDQVIST vs BUDAJ
12 | BIRON vs SMITH
13 | THOMAS vs LaBARBERA
14 | PRICE vs SABOURIN
15 | NABOKOV vs BOUCHER
16 | LEHTONEN vs HOWARD/RASK

Remember, totally random!

When I get the bracket completed, I'll post it. In the meantime, get ready to start casting your votes! And do me a favor, start spreading the word around. Let's get as many people involved in this tournament as possible!

Comments

[Ryan]

Cloutier vs. Luongo! That's irony there. Canuck fans will tell you - on the ice, no contest.

I mean, Lidstrom's great and all, but center ice? In the PLAYOFFS?

[sam]

That sucks that rask is in the preliminary round. He's got a nice mask.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/maskpainter/rask8.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forum.canucks.com/lofiversion/index.php/t166608.html&h=600&w=800&sz=109&hl=en&start=11&tbnid=tbDJyLSdQ0yKqM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dray%2Bemery%2Bnew%2Bpads%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

Sorry for the long url but check it out. I dunno if its his current or old mask but its awsome

[poro27]

no worries, its nice enough to make it to the actual tourny

[Sens_Maniac]

hi, i just wanted to know if you were using gerber's blank mask, or the mask shown here
http://media.canada.com/01b8b2a8-f449-4746-8e42-e3e213ae7ba8/1009_gerbermask.jpg

i like this mask better and i think it would be fair to use against garon's mask

[79HabsFan79]

Are you going to be using Halaks new mask or his old one?

If you are using his new one here is the best on i can find right now

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=495520

(just scroll down for picture)

[Ogre]

Yeah, my question (Along similar lines) is if you're using Huet's new mask or his Habs mask.

I'm a huge Caps fan, but his Habs mask was pretty.

[Michaela]

Okay, Ward had a different mask last night, but I hear it's before his old one has a chip and it's being repaired.. So I'm pretty sure he'll have the old one back.

[Phil]

I just saw Huet's new mask and I like it a lot. I saw one link of Halak's new mask and it was terrible quality. From what I could tell, it's either the Cyberdemon from Doom 3 or a crazy-ass minotaur.