Hat-trick... where do the hats go?

[tvp2003]

Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere... when a player scores a hat-trick (like Cammalleri last night), where do the hats go? Donated to charity? Do people try to get them back at after the game (I'm surprised that at 20-30 bucks a pop, people still toss their lids these days...)

[MelBridgeman]

Fan Attic for resale

[MrMastodonFarm]

Same place as your missing socks.

[Ronald Pagan]

They're Cammalleri's hats.

[SebC]

Donated to charity.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere... when a player scores a hat-trick (like Cammalleri last night), where do the hats go? Donated to charity? Do people try to get them back at after the game (I'm surprised that at 20-30 bucks a pop, people still toss their lids these days...)

I'm pretty sure people wear OLD hats to the game. And if they brought new hats, they're lower bowl people


We're not lower bowl people

[kevman]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

(I'm surprised that at 20-30 bucks a pop, people still toss their lids these days...)

At $7.25 a beer, throwing your hat on the ice is one of the cheapest things you can do at the game!

[Rhettzky]

A big Russian guy tries to give them to Ray Emery.

[Envitro]

My wife asked me this at the game last night, and I always thought the answer was "donated to charity". But I've also heard over the years that you can go and claim your hat for a period of 24hrs or something like that.

[StrayBullet]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

We're not lower bowl people

You probably have a nook.

[Berger_4_]

I know in the Dub the guys go through all the hats, pick out the ones that are sweet and they want to keep, and then the rest are probably donated to charity.

[greyshep]

Great question. I have always wondered that as well.

My daughter was asking me what happens to the hats last night while we were watching the game and I didnt have a good answer for her.

We need someone who has been an usher or inside the organization to some degree to step up here and set the record straight.

I was always under the impression that you could probably go and try to reclaim it later if you wanted to.

[sec304]

Originally Posted by greyshep

We need someone who has been an usher or inside the organization to some degree to step up here and set the record straight.

I was always under the impression that you could probably go and try to reclaim it later if you wanted to.

I agree, I was under the presumption that you could reclaim it later too, but it might be too much bother to make it worth while

[ComixZone]

I hucked my hat on the ice last night (i got free ticks, super close)...I figured 'hell, why not', always something ive wanted to do.

Also...did anyone at the game last night hear me yell "I LOVE THAT SMILE" at iginla after he posed for the pic at the start of the game? I got a pretty good laugh out of my section and even across the rink.

[OutOfTheCube]

I remember one time I was watching a Sharks playoff game on TV and Marleau got a hat trick. Gazillion hats. Later on in the broadcast they showed them all in a pick-up truck and said Marleau got to keep them.

I'll see if I can find it on Youtube, probly won't though.

[Pagal4321]

It's funny, apparently someone threw their hat last night and it didn't make in on the ice, just a few rows ahead of him and then right afterwards tried to get it back.

[Cactus Jack]

It looked like maybe 20-25 hats last night which pales in comparison to other cities you see on TV.

I'd assume they go to charity.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by sec304

I agree, I was under the presumption that you could reclaim it later too, but it might be too much bother to make it worth while

I asked my buddy who helps with the ice there and he said you can't reclaim them later. They are donated to charity.

[zztim81]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I asked my buddy who helps with the ice there and he said you can't reclaim them later. They are donated to charity.

strange, i wouldnt think anyone would want to put there head in some of thoses scuzzy lids... i remember years ago probably 15(?)... a friend of mine forgot his jacket in the stands after a game when we went done underneath to get some signitures from the Blues after a game in which the flames got owned... we found out it was taken to lost and found by an usher, so a security guy took us to a room near one of the back loading doors and there was a trash can full of hats, we asked him then what happens to the hats and he said if someone wanted theres back they can come and get them, if not they were trashed.

[MassFlames]

when Blake Wheeler got his first hat trick of the year in Boston in like November, the Bruins dumped all the hats in his locker.

My understanding is that every team does different things with them, but Bruins tradition is that they put one hat from the ice, each signed and dated, on the giant stuffed bear in the trainer's room. That's also where the famous bra from Wheeler's hattie ended up.

What they do with the rest of them, I have no idea, though I think they just get tossed. Will try to get a definitive answer for you tonight.

edit: some quick emailing around finds that in most cities there is a typically a Goodwill or thrift shop near the rink that just gets a buncha hats dropped off soon after each game.