- Logan Thompson’s new goalie mask is a tribute to the 1996 cult movie “Mars Attacks!”
- It’s the third straight bucket built around a film set in Washington, D.C.
- Read below for what’s painted on it and who put it together
Logan Thompson picked a movie that levels Washington.
The Capitals goalie’s new mask is a tribute to “Mars Attacks!”, the 1996 Tim Burton cult comedy where bug-eyed Martians torch the Washington Monument and blow up Congress. Dave Fried, the artist who paints all of Thompson’s buckets, revealed the design on Saturday and framed it as another entry in a running series.
“Fun #marsattacks themed mask for Logan Thompson of the @Capitals continuing his movie theme!!” Fried wrote. “Always so fun, thanks LT!”
Take a look at the finished bucket:
The base is red, with the Weagle on the crown and the Capitals wordmark along both sides of the jaw. From there it’s all movie. Exposed-brain Martians sit on the left and right, flying saucers streak across a red, white and blue backdrop, and the aliens’ entire vocabulary, ACK!, gets scattered around them.
Jack Nicholson, who played President James Dale, throws a peace sign. Four more characters landed on the backplate, including Danny DeVito as the loudmouth Vegas gambler, under the line “NICE PLANET WE’LL TAKE IT!” RMNB catalogued the full design.
More close-ups landed on Instagram:
There’s a pattern to these. Thompson wore a “National Treasure” mask in 2024 and a “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” mask last season. Both films are set in D.C. So is the alien invasion.
Here’s last year’s version, spotted at Capitals camp in September:
Fried also paints for Anton Forsberg in Los Angeles and Ivan Prosvetov in Calgary. The Thompson collaboration is the one that turns into a fall tradition.
The goalie wearing it is coming off the heaviest workload of his career. Thompson played 58 games last season and went 31-21-6 with a 2.44 goals-against average, a .912 save percentage and four shutouts.
He is not the only Capital who spent the summer around movies. Alex Ovechkin filmed a role in a Russian comedy before reporting back to Washington.
Three straight D.C. films is a real streak. The Weagle stays on the crown, and the rest of the mask is Fried’s problem again next September.
