You can be like my dad. Managed to dodge my brothers house league fees due to lack of goalies. Idk if he payed for the season for him.
As for minor hockey the price has gone up from when I was playing, but registration has also gone down significantly. When I was in bantam there was 13 teams in house league with around 16 goalies. 14 years later same age group has 4 teams with 4 goalies.