Hat trick!

Hockey is larger than life. And the one thing larger than hockey is Wayne Gretzky. He made more goals, assists, points, and hat tricks than anyone in hockey.

A hat trick is when a player scores three goals in one game. A “hat trick” though goes back to cricket, almost 200 years ago. The term came into hockey in the 1930s from a newspaper. A Toronto store owner in 1946 handed out free hats for hat tricks as a promotion and the tradition started. But most of the time people throw their own hats.

Free hats are rare. The trick is to bring a cheap hat to a hockey game. One you’d be willing to throw, and one that’s aerodynamic.