Linus Ullmark honours Buffalo Sabres greats on his 50th anniversary mask

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Linus Ullmark mask , Twitter/BuffaloSabres

Linus Ullmark was selected 163rd overall in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres and the 26-year-old is now heading into his fifth season with the club.

Ahead of the team’s season opener in Pittsburgh on Thursday night, Ullmark revealed his new mask for the 2019-20 campaign and he shows some love to some of the greatest players in franchise history on his new cage.

The gold. The greats. @lullmark’s new mask has it all. 🙌 #Sabres50

A post shared by Buffalo Sabres (@buffalosabres) on Oct 1, 2019 at 9:16am PDT

Of course, since this is a Buffalo Sabres 50th anniversary goalie mask, it’s only right that Dominik Hasek is included on it. The Dominator is also joined by Tim Horton, Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin, Rene Robert and Danny Gare.

It was so exciting to paint and create my friend Linus Ullmark’s mask for the golden Buffalo jersey✨⚔️. Linus had a clear vision for the design, he wanted to pay tribute to legendary Buffalo players🙏🏻🎨. We brainstormed together and came up with a plan how to build the design. A design with a lot of white and a touch of gold⭐️. I love to create these tribute and storyteller masks📙. Thank you Linus😊🙏🏻! @lullmark @buffalosabres #DaveArt @nhl #DaveArtFamily #nhl #DaveArtTheCradleOfCreativity

A post shared by David Gunnarsson (@daveart) on Oct 2, 2019 at 1:47pm PDT

Ullmark got the most work of his career last year as he appeared in 37 games for the Sabres and went 15-14-5 with a 3.11 goals against average and a .905 save percentage.

(H/T Instagram/daveart)