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Goalie Mask Tournament of Greatness: Mighty Ducks Round One - #2 Bryzgalov vs #7 Shields

It's cartoon Ducks versus terminator Ducks in the second to last first round match up for the Mighty era.

It's been all chalk so far in the Mighty Ducks era bracket after Dominic Roussel upended Guy Hebert's 1995-96 alternate design to win the Play In match. Both the higher seeds advanced, as Jean-Sebastien Giguere's 2002-03 Conn Smythe mask handled Mikhail Shtalenkov's 95-96 Indiana Jones, and Hebert's 99-00 take on his traditional look skated by Giguere's darker 05-06 mask. This leaves just the top two seeds still to face first round competition, as Ilya Bryzgalov's 05-06 record setting playoff mask tangles with Steve Shields' terminator ducks after a quick look at the bracket:

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#2 Ilya Bryzgalov 2005-06

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Sometimes, it's better to go right to the source to get the explanation about the mask design from a Fox Sports segment early in the 06-07 season:

"(The) mask is very much from Walt Disney because I haven't had a chance to change (my) mask this year, new mask is coming, that's the old mask.