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If you play high school hockey in the US, you will need an HECC certified mask.
That means no pro-style cateye.
The cage on the Vaughn mask in question is certified, due to the additional bars that make the eye holes small enough to pass. However, you will not be able to transfer this type of cage to the Hackva, since masks are certified as a total package, and it probably won't fit anyway.
Most of those who have played with both types seem to prefer the sightlines in the grid style cage over the certified cateye, since the extra bars seem to defeat the purpose of why one would want the cateye cage.
When you say you don't like the "looks" of one but like the "looks" of the other, I assume you are talking about how you like the visual appeal of the outside of the mask. Get over it. It is much more important to be able to see clearly from the inside out, than to worry about how it "looks". Performance trumps style. You can't see the outside of the mask when it's on your head anyway.
So suck it up until you leave high school and become a beer-league hack like the rest of us. If you play in college, it will be four more years of the certified cage, so get used to it now.
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