Fredie: absolutely,  I actually saw that game and listened to the reports that same day.  What most people today don't understand is that while hockey is an upper middle class sport due to its cost, it actually came from very humble beginnings. Most of Toe's generation where simply farm boys or blue collard  or lower class kids who loved the simplicity of the game. The equipment was usually home made and sticks were simple one piece roots you steamed, bent and shaved yourself, then took it out to a pond.  When we played pond hockey, we had no rules. I played on natural ice as a child,  in organized leagues and I didn't play on artificial ice until I became the property of the Habs  Kids made their own masks, after the Plante explosion, my first mask was a wired up catcher's  mask that looked very much like Sawchuck's mask.