Why do they call it a hattrick when someone scores three goals in hockey?
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In hockey, a game of power, finesse and speed played on ice, scoring goals are a priority item. A team is awarded a goal when a player shoots the puck past the opposition's goalie and into the goal. The goal itself, often referred to simply as the "net," measures four feet tall (1.22 meters) and six feet wide (1.83 meters). If someone scores a "hat trick" in hockey, it means that a player has scored three goals in one game.\n\nThe team with the most goals at the end of a hockey game is declared the winner. Hockey is one of the few sports that allows a game to end in a tie. Scoring one goal in a game of hockey is an admirable feat; scoring three goals in a hockey games is a rarity. Many players go their entire career without even coming close to scoring a hat trick. Hockey statisticians keep track of both team and individual highlights during a season. For one scored goal, a statistician will award a player one point. The player who passes the puck to a player who scores is awarded an "assist" by the stat man and also receives a point. While assists are a vital part of hockey and carry the exact same weight (one point) as a goal itself, assists are never taken into play when discussing a hat trick. A hat trick is based on goals alone.\n\nWhen a player in the National Hockey League (NHL) scores a hat trick, the fans, as a custom, toss their hats or caps on to the ice as a sign of their appreciation and respect. It's their way of recognizing the rarity of this feat. Hall of famer Wayne Gretzsky, had fans tossing their hats to the ice many times during his storied 20-year career. Of the many NHL records Gretzsky owns, the fact that he scored 50 hat tricks from 1979-1999 may be the most amazing. Akin to the grand slam in baseball, a hat trick is a feat fans will not often witness, but when they do, they won't soon forget.\n\n\nAnother link said:\n\nWatching a hockey player charge down the ice and slap the puck past a floundering goalie for his third goal of the game is one of the most exhilarating plays in all of sports. The term used to describe such a feat, "hat trick," has long been linked to hockey, and, after a bit of searching, we discovered its unusual origin.\n\nWe first visited the Word Detective, the online version of the popular newspaper column written by Evan Morris. He says the term came from the English game of cricket and cites The Oxford English Dictionary, which explains: "The feat of a bowler who takes three wickets by three successive balls: originally considered to entitle him to be presented by his club with a new hat or some equivalent."\n\nWe next checked out an article titled "Puck talk: A guide to hockey lingo" from The Dallas Morning News. In addition to learning that the terms "mucker," "pipe-fitter," "plumber," and "grinder" are interchangeable, we unearthed another interesting tidbit about the term "hat trick."\n\nIn the article, John Halligan, an NHL executive who writes a hockey trivia column for the NHL web site, says in the 1940s, a Toronto haberdasher used to give Maple Leaf hockey players free hats when they scored three goals in a game. Halligan also agrees that the term "hat trick" probably evolved from cricket.\n\nSo, what happens to all those hats that litter the ice? Well, it seems Dave Kindred, a columnist at The Sporting News, has been asked that question a few times. As we would have guessed, the hats are usually given to charities.\n\nHe shoots, he scores, he wins a hat.
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The term was originally used in cricket, and was connected with the custom of giving a hat or cap to a bowler who achieved the feat of taking three wickets in a row. It may be connected with the concept of giving someone their "cap", i.e. acknowledging them as a regular member of a representative team. Another school of thought mentions that a bowler was challenged if he could take three in three. Hats were passed around to collect the odds. The bowler succeeded and collected the large amount of cash. Thus the term hat-trick could have been also derived from this event
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it's actually very simple. \n\nThe object of the game is to score the biggest number of goals in the opposing team's goalpost. \n\nThere are 11 players on each team, and a couple of referees. \n\nTake for example Team A and team B. \n\nWhen a player from team A has the ball and gets knocked down by a player from team B it's called a foul. When a foul occurs, the game is stopped and the ball is given to  team A (in this case). Depending on the part of the field in which the foul occured, team A gets to kick the ball. \n\nIf the foul occurs inside of the small rectangle near the goalpost, then it's called a penalty. And a player from team A gets to shoot at the goal with only team's B goal keeper to stop him. (by stopping him I mean, stopping the ball from going into the goal post)\n\nWhen for example a player from team A kicks the ball and it goes beyond the sidelines, then a player from team B gets possession of the ball. This player is allowed to grab the ball with his hands and throw it to a teammate.\n\nNote:\nplayers can only grab the ball with their hands when the ball goes beyond the sidelines. The goal keeper is allowed to use his hands at all times to catch the ball.\n\nThere are two halfs, each of 45 minutes. At the end of each half,  a few extra minutes of game play are given to make up for any previously lost time. Such as when an injured player has to be carried out of the field.\n\nThe referee has two cards: yellow and red. The yellow one is shown to the player who commits a very dirty foul, or to the player that argues with the referee. The red card is shown to the player who commits an extremely dirty foul, or to a player who has a yellow card and commits yet another foul.\n\nOffsides occur when a player from team A is on team B's side of the field and there's no one from team B standing between the goalkeeper and the player from team A.
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I think the PK goal category is only for PK's in the game. I don't think it applies to Shootouts.
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Yay! Another Canucks fan!\n\nGoalies don't just drink when they get scored on - that's just when the camera is on them. If you think about it, most skaters are playing 20mins tops because of line changes in a 60 min game. When they're not on the ice, they're drinking. The goalie has to wait for any stoppage in the play to drink water whether that's icing, a penalty called or - when a goal is scored.\n\nIt's just that when a goal is scored on the goalie, the camera wants to see the goalie's reaction so you see it happen then.
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It is foul play to hit the ball with the reverse side of the hockey stick. The reason it being classified as foul ***could be*** possibly that the curve on the reverse side of the hockey stick could set off the ball in direction not intended by the striker and confuse the striker and remaining players as well on the field.
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It's a psychological play.  The goalies think the goal is very big while the shooter thinks its a tiny goal.  If you are confident in yourself the shooter should be able to make it.  the shooter has much better odds of making it than the goalie has of stopping it.  I myself am a goalie and know that feeling.  and yes mexico does miss penalties, look at Omar Bravo- he was very nervous
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i havent been to too many games, but i've seen it done 3 times.\n\nin 1998 Valeri Kamensky of Colorado\nlast season i saw some guy from Edmonton do it, cant remember his name though\nand last week i saw a Nils Ekman of Pittsburgh score a natural hat trick in 4 minutes and 10 seconds!  FREAKIN AWESOME!!
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It's because earlier goals were made of stretched out onion bags. Its as simple as that. The bags had a netting similar to that of a goal, so goals are called onion bags.
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Beverly - they play 3 periods, unless there's a tie.  If the game is tied after 3 periods, they play one 10 minute overtime period.  If it's still tied after the overtime, there will be a shoot out (5 players from each team will be selected).  \n\nIf still tied, each team will select a player that has not participated in the shootout and they will have an opportunity.  A single player from each team will participate in the shootout until a player from one team scores and the corresponding player from the other team does not.
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Yep, and if you score three in a row without someone from your or other team scoring in between, it's called the "natural" hat trick.
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It is when a player gets a pass from aomebody else in the team and is before everyone or everyone except the goalie. or it is when the ball is in the air and the opponent is nearer to your goal than the ball and all players or all players  except the goalie
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Back in the 80's the Canadian teams had the "Molson's Three Stars" where each time the player gets named one of the three stars they would accumulate points for a trophy that was sponsored by Molson. But that sponsorhip was all about recognition and so it continues today. Teams use this in many cases to have a name sponsor to the three stars so it is as much advertising as it is for recognition.
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A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. In North America it is often rendered as hat trick, with no hyphen. (The Oxford English Dictionary has it unhyphenated and gives a variety of examples published in the 19th and 20th centuries both with and without the hyphen.)\n\nThe term was originally used in cricket, and was connected with the custom of giving a hat or cap to a bowler who achieved the feat of taking three wickets in a row. It may be connected with the concept of giving someone their "cap", i.e. acknowledging them as a regular member of a representative team. Another school of thought mentions that a bowler was challenged if he could take three in three. Hats were passed around to collect the odds. The bowler succeeded and collected the large amount of cash. Thus the term hat-trick could have been also derived from this event.
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Except for the goalies, if you're on the ice for an equal strength goal, you get a plus, if it's a goal against, you get a minus.\n\nShort handed and power play goals don't figure into this stat.
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couple things that i noticed from others answers that are wrong...  Icing is not when the puck goes past the opposing players blue line and then past the goal line (which passes from side to side across the front of the goal).  Icing is when the puck is shot from behind the red line (center ice) without being touched and then passes the line that extends across the ice from side to side at the goal, (goal line).  If the puck is moving slow and barely crosses the line, the Icing is waived off by the official.  Or if the goaltender comes out of his goal crease (blue area directly in front of the net) whether he makes a play on the puck or not, the icing is waived off.  I'd also like to note that Overtime is not 20 mins, it is 5mins during the regular season in which whoever scores first, wins (sudden death).  There is no such thing as a tie anymore.  During the regular season, if the game is tied after 3 periods, they go to a 5 min sudden death overtime.  If it's still tied after the overtime, the teams go to a shootout in which 3 members from each team get an individual breakaway shot (1 on 1) with the goaltender.  whichever team scores the most out of the 3 shootout chances wins.  if they both score the same ammount out of their three chances then the shootout continues, 1 person at a time, from each team, until 1 team scores and the other does not.  for the playoffs, overtime is 20 mins and it's a sudden death.  If nobody scores, then they go to another overtime of 20 mins, and they will continue to do so until 1 team scores.  there is also a such thing as a double minor penalty, which the player is assessed 4 mins instead of the reg 2 for a minor penalty.  also, a new rule that they incorporated this season is that if a player gets into a fight within the last 5 mins of regulation (3rd period) then he is assessed a 10 min penalty (essentially the rest of the game) plus a 1 game misconduct, which means he's not playing at all in the next game.  a hand pass is when a player passes the puck with his hand, to another player.  a hand pass is allowed, but only in yr own (defensive) zone (from the blue line, back toward the goaltender).  you are not allowed to handpass in the neutral zone (from blue line, past center ice to the other blue line) or the offensive zone (blue line of opposing teams goaltender side toward their goaltender).  Yr not allowed to play with broken equipment.  for example, if the stick cracks but does not break completely, and you continue to play with it.  it's a penalty.  there's so many rules to the game.  So, I'll tell ya what.  whatever u wanna know, just click on my avatar and send me an email and I'll help ya out.  I could go on forever with this answer cause there's so many rules, that most people don't even know about.  I just get boared at work and read the NHL rulebook a lot.  if you want, you can check it out at NHL.com and just click on the quicklink for rules.  pretty interesting...
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It originates from cricket, where there used to be a tradition of "giving a cap" to a bowler when they got 3 wickets. It was a reward for playing well.