A 15-year-old boy purchased a hockey goalie face mask.
While playing goalie, he was struck in the face by a hockey puck shot by another teenage boy. The metal screening on the mask did not absorb the force of the puck, and the plaintiff suffered a broken nose and other facial injuries. There was some evidence that there may have been a structural defect in the wire screening.[72]
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