The Hat Trick!

Sometimes the impossible happens on the ice. Once you see it and experience the excitement of a Hat Trick, then that one game is never the same. The built up emotions of the people near you, the screaming and chanting that grows till it fills the arena with wild clapping and shouting.

To make this image grander, a Hat Trick is 3 of something in a game done by the same player. It can be 3 goals. If the goals are uninterrupted then it is called a ‘Natural Hat Trick.’ Sounds pretty amazing when you think about some games, when no one is playing right? So, who are these players that are achieving these hat tricks?

Most of the players are known thought out hockey. They are the legends and the figures in children’s dreams. They are the bobble heads that are placed on dashboards in cars, everywhere!

The person with the most hat tricks in their career is the one and only Wayne Gretzky with 50. He also holds the record for the most hat tricks in one season 1981-1982 and 1983-1984 with 10.

The players with the most consecutive hat trick games are Joe Malone in 1917-1918 and Mike Bossy in 1980- 1981 with 3.

Do you know who holds the record for the 4 or more goal games in one season?? The answer is 3 games in the 1992- 1993 season…the player is (drum roll here) Mario Lemieux.

Now you have it! So next time your favorite player does something in 3’s (even if it is penalties) you can emerge into the rowdy crowd and shout to your heart’s content– Now that you know what a hat trick is!!