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Mask Off: Meet the Artist Behind the NHL's Best Goalie Masks

A Pac-Man game board, an adaptation of actor Will Ferrell's character from the movie Elf and a homeland war hero—these are just are just a few of the images you may have seen patrolling the goal crease in the NHL playoffs this spring.

Those watching this year's Stanley Cup playoffs, most notably the Western Conference Final, likely have seen the work of artist David Gunnarsson of DaveArt, the man behind the designs of goalie masks for Nashville Predator Pekka Rinne and Anaheim Duck John Gibson.

"I am so happy and proud to be painting for incredibly good goalies," Gunnarsson tells Bleacher Report.