If it ain't custom...

Many of the Canadian men’s team has gone the route of their hockey goalie compatriots with custom helmet paint, and probably the freshest job on the hill at Crans-Montana sits on Dominic Garand’s head.  Dom is sort of an Ontario/Quebec/Vermont hybrid not seen since the days of fur trading and the early logging booms in Eastern North America, and he represents his heritage well with this candy coat.  Painted by “this lady in Montreal who does a bunch of NHL goalie helmets,” Dom’s lid features the maple leaf and a kind of Banksian rendering of Burke Mountain, Dominic’s current home hill.  Also present is the Canadian team’s inexplicable (and, frankly, sort of unforgivable) choice of the color yellow as the dominating color scheme in their uniforms.  Why they’ve consistently chosen colors to create the cheeseburger-with-mayonnaise theme can probably really only be explained by visiting a place like, say, Winnipeg, or maybe Edmonton, preferably around the end of November or late February.  You get the picture.  Sometimes you just need to brighten up your world a little bit, so if the sun never shines, just paint something yellow.  Dom’s helmet pulls it off in style, though, and we’d love to see more custom work like this out on the hill.