SAN JOSE – When he gets his 11th start of the season tonight against the New Jersey Devils, back-up netminder Alex Stalock will be sporting the retro look:

A plain white face mask.

Gone will be his usual colorful mask that featured, among other things, the state fish of his native Minnesota, the walleye. Instead he will be wearing his first, custom-fitted mask after a mold was made of his face in its construction. And he hasn’t had time to put a signature look on it yet.

“Marty wore it last,” Stalock said, a reference to the all-white look of goalie great Martin Brodeur. “I’ll be the next guy to wear it.”

Stalock does plan to have his new mask painted over the NHL All-Star break, though he said he hasn’t settled on the design elements.

The start is Stalock’s first Jan. 6 when he was in net against the Minnesota Wild for San Jose’s 4-3 overtime win. But he has come into games in relief of starter Antti Niemi twice since.

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