Strikes me that some of you are probably too young to remember Craig MacTavish. Crash, as he was known, was the last helmetless player in the NHL by like a lot. I became conscious of hockey around 1991 or so, and I’m not sure I remember any other helmetless players ever. And MacTavish played without a helmet until 1997. It was the type of thing that seemed really awesome when I was 15 but strikes me as less awesome and more senselessly dangerous now.