All views of Peter Budaj’s mask, goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens (courtesy of Dave Art Designs)
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Budaj’s helmet is called “The Three Storms”
“Peter had such a cool idea for this mask… He wanted the Three Storms, the three Asian super wizards with the mega hats from the super movie Big Trouble in Little China… :-) He also wanted Asian mysticism all over the mask, mixed with an old school Habs design.
So exciting to create! One Storm is standing on each side of the mask shooting magic bolts. And all bolts in the design are glowing in the dark! Yes! And just as usual, when you come closer you enter a new dimension of details to discover. You find Chinese stone dragons with glowing eyes, and an Asian script rolled up on the chin of the mask in a cool 3-D way where you find Peter’s player number. You also find a cool Chinese lion guardian in the front of the mask, and if you look close in the white lines of the mask you find small dragons and ying and yang.
You may wonder where the third Storm wizard is, well look at the backplate…” — David Gunnarsson
More at: The Three Storms – Peter Budaj, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, 2011