What's the Deal with Hockey Masks?

Hockey masks have lost that speacial "Terror Factor" they once had. Today if I saw some crazed guy waving a chainsaw and wearing a hockey mask, I wouldn't run in terror... I would just think it's the goalie of the San Jose Sharks, and I bet I could take him as long as I hit him below the neck. I mean after all, he might not be scary, but he is still wearing a helmet.