Capitals fill Nicklas Backstrom’s locker with hats after his hat trick

It’s a hockey tradition for fans to throw hats onto the ice after a player registers a hat trick. If you’re like me, you’ve always wondered what happens to the hats after the game. Do they just throw them away? Do they give them to charity?

That is one heck of a collection. Backstrom didn’t seem to know what to do with them.

Eventually he just walked away and let some team employees deal with it.

The dude just scored a hat trick! He doesn’t need to clean up piles of hats.