Hockey & Soccer Goalie Hats

Goalies are a breed apart, and every sport that has one says so. The NHL's own site runs a feature on whether goalies are weird, and Kevin Constantine recalls the old saying: find the weirdest kid on the playground and he can probably be your goalie. Patrick Roy talked to his goalposts and explained that they were his friends, a habit Marc-Andre Fleury later picked up. Jacques Plante described the job as making a mistake while a red light goes on behind you and 18,000 people yell. Lacrosse goalie Cooper Fogle calls it being the last line of defense, and Gilles Gratton once said that in biblical times he stoned people to death and now they repay him by hurling pucks at his head. These goalie hats are for hockey, soccer, lacrosse and water polo keepers, and for anyone who simply stands in front of things that are flying at them. Two plain badges, GOALIE and GOALTENDER, anchor the page. The rest carry the wearer's side of the joke: the biggest stick on the ice, the defensive breakdown that was never the goalie's fault, the human target practice, the quiet talks with the goalposts. I'M A KEEPER and GOALIES HAVE THE BIGGEST STICK each get a second colorway because both already sell elsewhere. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat.