Old Time goalies by John Dykes

John submitted some of his paintings of some old time goalies. These are some really nice paintings that capture the feel of the goalies in this era, here are Doug Grant of the St. Louis Blues, Mike Palmateer and Gord McRae of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Jim Rutherford of the Detroit Red Wings.

Thanks for submitting them John!

 

Mike Palmateer

Gord McRae

Doug Grant

Jim Rutherford

Welcome back NHL 2013-2014

Tonight we welcome back the NHL for the 2013-2014 season, on time this year. I'll have a big announcement in the next few days on the project that has been keeping me busy this past summer. So without any further adieu...the Maple Leafs take on the Canadians to open the season tonight and Jeff Nepinak submitted his Drawing of Curtis Joseph during the summer, and a perfect time to post it tonight. Joseph wore one of the most iconic masks in NHL history and has been one of my favorite goalies to watch growing up. Thanks for sending in your work Jeff, more is certainly welcome.

Curtis Joseph

2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Boston Bruins vs Toronto Maple Leafs

Tonight the Bruins have another chance to eliminate the Leafs after not doing so in a very entertaining game 5. The Bruins have a 3 games to 2 lead heading into game 6 and in the games they have won they have been rather dominating scores. It will be interesting to see what kind of game we will get tonight being another elimination game, I would say the Leafs have another good in-store to push to game 7.

This is my last post for round 1 and round 2 will start next week other games today are the Capitals trying to eliminate the Rangers or go to a game 7 (yes please) and the only game 7 in the 1st round so far is Detroit and Anaheim, interesting how all of Detroit's wins have come in OT, that tells you how close it has been and if your Anaheim...don't go to OT.

So here are two more of my pieces of Boston Bruins Nathan Horton and Toronto Maple Leafs James van Riemsdyk.

Nathan Horton

James van Riemsdyk

Throw Back Thursday: Toronto Maple Leafs

Part of this inspiration to do the "Throw Back Thursday" series is that I've been going through all my old sketch books and drawings and have re-discovered a lot of my older drawings to use for it, as well as the submissions I've been receiving. Here are a couple sketches I'm pretty sure I did back in '99 of the Toronto Maple Leafs, featuring sketches done in pen (while I was in school most likely) of Félix Potvin, Mats Sundin and Curtis Joseph.

Félix Potvin & Mats Sundin

Curtis Joseph

Throw Back Thrusday: Jacques Plante

Tom submitted another piece featuring an old school goalie drawing of Jacques Plante as a Toronto Maple Leaf. Jacques Plante in a Maple Leaf jersey isn't the 1st image that comes to mind when I think of Jacques Plante, makes this piece more interesting. Plante is best remembered playing for Montreal and for being the 1st goaltender to wear a mask, play the puck behind the net and several other innovations for the goaltending position, in his later years of his playing days he moved around to quite a few other teams, the Rangers, Blues, Bruins then to his final NHL team the Maple Leafs, he then played for the Oilers shortly (then in the WHA) before finally retiring. so here is Toms artwork of Jacques Plante playing for his final NHL team.

Jacques Plante

Toronto Maple Leafs: James Reimer

Seems things are slowing down in NHL news, with training camp scheduled to open next week I'm hoping talks continue through the week and some sort of deal is reached to get the games in. We'll here is more of my artwork, Toronto Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer

Mini Goalie Mask: Toronto Maple Leafs

I remember collecting those mini goalie mask key chains but didn't care for just the team logo printed on the top so I got inspired to paint a design based on the team logo on each mask. no these are from years ago (early 2000's I think) so some logos will be outdated but i think some of them are pretty cool. Here's number 2, The Toronto Maple Leafs mini goalie mask.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Cherry Hill Design

Sorry for the delay in posts, I have a little collection of artwork submitted as well as more of my own I'll try to spread out a little.

First off some great pictures of work from a company called Cherry Hill Design, owner Michael Gossack submitted these amazing photos of customized rooms. check out their website for more.

http://www.cherryhilldesign.ca

Vesa Toskala

A pencil drawing of Vesa Toskala of the Toronto Maple Leafs