Why do many goalies wear #30-35

number55 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: Why do many goalies wear #30-35

I have always wondered why a majority of goalies wear numbers 30-35. I can understand why someone would wear #1. Are they possibly using their pad size?

canadian_man_44 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject:

That's pretty interesting. Could be when they start they just put the age they figure their going to retire at. Laughing

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netmind · Hall of Fame Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 1501

well I have always associated it to this....back in the day...lol
1-3 were reserved for goalies, centers could wear 4-14
wings up to 22 Defense men 23-29 and goalies in the 30's
then in the 80's or so...some folks figured out there 99 double digit numbers for a jersy.
i used to be 24...and 2
I am now going to go with 37...my current age as I get back in the net.

number55 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:46 am Post subject:

That's interesting also. I know Giguere wears 35 because it is the highest number the Ducks allow a goalie to wear.

Can anyone think of a NHL goalie who does not wear a number 1-5 or 30-35?

montreal961 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:13 am Post subject:

christobal heut waers 39,,, jose theodore waers 60.... im curently wearing
65 Very Happy

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Watson 29 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:10 am Post subject:

I'm currently wearing 92, but I'm gonna get a bigger jersey next season so I'm gonna go 29
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Phantomsgoalie#1 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:52 am Post subject:

im #1, #30(brodeur) and also #1 again, who knows maybe goalies are reserved the numbers nobody wants sadly Sad

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canadian_man_44 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:56 am Post subject:

Maybe it's because goalies are different so they take the numbers noboby else wants. After all we're playing the position nobody else wants.........except for us crazy guys.
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Phantomsgoalie#1 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject:

tony42 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject:

I showed up for my first game on an expansion team in a league, they handed me #42. Now I'm #42.

nance511 · Minors Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 279 Location: Texas

Mike Smith from the stars wears 41, I wear 41
Kevin Weekes from the Rangers wears 80
Hannu Toivonen wears 47 (weird much?)
Kolzig wears 37
Gerber, Fleury and McLennan (evil s***) wear 29
some teams have limits on how high a netminders number can be, other goalies choose to wear a number multiplied by 2 (Theodore wears 60 because he wore 30 in juniors and wasn't able to wear it for the Habs, so he just doubled it)
some guys wear outrageous numbers, I used to wear 84 and when people would ask me why I'd just shrug and walk off.
some wear their heroes number, others wear a number assigned to them and some just do whatever.
Nikolai Khabibulin wore 53 for about a month in Chicago because it's 35 backwards and 35 is retired for Esposito in Chi-town.
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TimothyJ · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:

interestingly enough, I wear a 2. It has almost always been my number. However, for the first six years I played hockey, I did not play goalie.

Perhaps playing goalie was my destiny all along o.O...

or maybe 2 is just my lucky number >.>
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mx42 · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

Canada789 · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

I got stuck with plain old 33
sometimes i use some tape and change it to .33 with a repeating sign over the 33

next time i might do 1/33, just for fun.