Are goalie gloves neccasary

[THEWALL16]

if so[or not] which goalie or non-goalie gloves are best

[nemesis562]

depends if you like broken thumbs. some people are into that.

[FallIntoIt]

I sometimes make a save by deflecting the ball off of my cuff. I like my wrists intact, and my thumbs their natural color (I've got enough bruises on my legs), so you know.

I can't provide for you any sort of comparison, but I dig my goalie Gladiators.

[Garor]

The goalie superfreaks are nice. And yeah, breaking thmubs and splitting nails isn't fun.

[tomahawks11]

golaie gloves are great.... but thick hockey gloves are just as good.... one of our goalies uses them

[robi]

Our goalie uses regular gloves and his hands aren't in terrible condition.

[wolfie8914]

Goalie gloves do not inpinge upon movement or anything. The thumb is just super beefy. If you have to money to get the goalie version, I would get them. Probably the superfreaks. My goalie uses his goalie gloves when he plays defense too and he says its not a problem at all.

[OldGoalie]

It's funny. Years ago when I played high school and college ball, there were no goalie-specific gloves, so there was no choice in the matter. However, I do believe that the thumbs and fingers on those older gloves were beefier to some extent than those of today's gloves (the whole glove was bulkier as well.) In that time, I never really managed to injure my thumbs playing in goal.

Nowadays, I love the goalie-specific gloves (the Goalie Glads are what I use), and would probably not use the field ones. I have already taken a couple of hard shots to the thumbs and the Glads did a good job of protecting me. They also don't get in the way or restrict movement at all. I don't really see a downside except for a few extra bucks.

[auslax_goalie]

yeh they are i used not to use them took a shot from a long pole rght into it. it popped out and broke something in there i cant straighten my thumb any more. so yeh its not worth breaking bones buy goalie gloves