GoalieMasks101: Every Mask Has a Story
Jul 11, 2026 · 11 min · 7 segments
A video clip from our recent interview with Friedesigns discussing how they got started working with Team Canada and the story behind each of the mask designs from this year's Olympic and Paralympic…
That would have started in 2022 for the last Winter Olympics.
Yeah.
So I got a buddy here in Calgary.
He's a goalie coach.
He's got his own goalie coach company, Top Prospects Goaltending.
He championed me and said, you know, I got this guy, local guy.
He's really good.
You should get the girls to get the masks done.
So 2022, I got to do all the girls and they won gold and it was amazing.
And it was one of the biggest accomplishments at that time of our, our career.
And then it just kind of kept going from there.
We kept painting through team Canada, just through the years until the next Olympics came and You know, we were kind of holding our breath to hope that
you never know, though, you know, you you never know what's coming until it's here.
So, yeah, you just
and you never you never expect anything.
Yeah.
You always just have to.
Yeah, we never expect anything.
So it's it's always really exciting when when you hear from them or hear from somebody in their their cups.
Yeah, that's always the most exciting for sure.
That would have started in 2022 for the last Winter Olympics.
Yeah.
So I got a buddy here in Calgary.
He's a goalie coach.
He's got his own goalie coach company, Top Prospects Goaltending.
He championed me and said, you know, I got this guy, local guy.
He's really good.
You should get the girls to get the masks done.
So 2022, I got to do all the girls and they won gold and it was amazing.
And it was one of the biggest accomplishments at that time of our, our career.
And then it just kind of kept going from there.
We kept painting through team Canada, just through the years until the next Olympics came and You know, we were kind of holding our breath to hope that
you never know, though, you know, you you never know what's coming until it's here.
So, yeah, you just
and you never you never expect anything.
Yeah.
You always just have to.
Yeah, we never expect anything.
So it's it's always really exciting when when you hear from them or hear from somebody in their their cups.
Yeah, that's always the most exciting for sure.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
