Mask History
- While playing for the AHL's Chicago Wolves, the Hamburglar was featured on his skullcap, an homage to the nickname he received shortly after arriving from Finland, and becoming enamoured with McDonald's hamburgers.
- He had a depiction of rapper Lil Jon, who is an avid Thrashers fan, on his skullcap.
- In the past, Lehtonen has worn helmets featuring characters Yuna and Rikku from the video game Final Fantasy X-2, as well as Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu's characters from Kill Bill. Lehtonen, however, is not a video game fanatic; "I've never played it, but I saw a couple of commercials about the game and just thought it looked awesome."
- He also had a mask made featuring Optimus Prime from Transformers, which was never worn in a game, only in pre-game warm ups.
- He also wore a mask that showed a depiction of Heath Ledger's Joker character from The Dark Knight, with a stylized ATL featured on the other side.
- His first mask for the Dallas Stars depicted Clint Eastwood's character from the movie "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly."
- His second mask for the Dallas Stars features Chuck Norris.
- His current mask for the Dallas Stars features characters and scenes from the movie "Tombstone."
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“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it, and had his being there. Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)