Kari Lehtonen Presents Chuck Norris

Some of the true believers among you probably remember my first article on Kari Lehtonen, the Dallas Stars goalie with all those amazing masks. Well, Lehtonen recently unveiled a brand new face mask adorned with pictures of actor/martial artist/Total Gym endorser Chuck Norris.

Dallas has always known how to make sports about more than sports. Whether it's cheerleaders, ice girls, the largest domed structure on the planet, personalized songs by Pantera, or in this instance, the most interesting face masks in the league, Dallas can really sell their teams. You have to love or hate that, which means they're doing their job --- inspiring people to feel passionately about Dallas teams.

Go Stars!

The Masks of Kari Lehtonen

Kari Lehtonen is known for sporting a variety of customized masks in his time as a AHL and NHL goalie. A couple of his more interesting mask themes include a tribute to Heath Ledger as Joker in Dark Knight and a Kill Bill themed original design.

Lehtonen has had pictures of the Hamburglar and rapper Lil Jon featured on his skullcap. Though he's not much of a gamer he had a helmet with art from Final Fantasy X-2 simply because he saw a commercial and thought it looked cool. For pre-game warm-ups he'll occasionally wear a mask depicting Optimus Prime of the Transformers.

On March 4, Lehtonen revealed the design for his current mask tha he will use with the Dallas Stars. Depicted on this mask is Clint Eastwood as Blondie in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.