Where did hockey get the term 'hat trick'?

Answer 1

Well according to ask Yahoo and a posting from Thursday August 23, 2001 available at

http://ask.yahoo.com/20010823.html

read the following:

"What is the origin of the hockey term "hat trick"?
Mike
Edmonton, Canada

Dear Mike:
Watching 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.
We 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."

We 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."

In 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.

So, 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.

He shoots, he scores, he wins a hat. "

So based on that it appears to have originated in Toronto, not New York and not in Hab town.

Answer 2

different hat trick words you could hear are "organic Hat Trick" or "Gordie Howe Hat Trick" A "organic Hat Trick" is once you score 3 targets in a row. case in point, if the score is 3-0 and you scored all 3 targets, you have a organic hat trick. even with the undeniable fact that, in case you score 2 targets, the the different group rankings, then you certainly score lower back, this is a typical hat trick. Franzen have been given a organic hat trick final evening, on an analogous time as Byfuglien have been given a typical hat trick 2 nights in the past. A "Gordie Howe Hat Trick" is extra of a slang time era from my understanding, even with the undeniable fact that that's while a participant gets a purpose, an help, and gets right into a combat in the comparable sport.

Answer 3

It comes from the English game of cricket and refers to a bowler who takes three wickets with three successive balls. For those more familiar with baseball, this is an impressive achievement, similar to a baseball pitcher striking out three batters in a row, but much less common. It seems to have been the custom in the nineteenth century for such a paragon of the art to be awarded a new hat by his club as a mark of his success. However, it is sometimes also said that the phrase alludes to a distinctly more plebeian reward in which the bowler was permitted to take his hat around the crowd for a collection (not necessarily a bowler hat, of course: that was named after a couple of completely different chaps, Messrs Thomas and William Bowler, hatmakers). Hat trick was first recorded in print in the 1870s, but has since been widened to apply to any sport in which the person competing carries off some feat three times in quick succession, such as scoring three goals in one game of soccer.
So this being said 3 goals by the same player in an NHL game is a hat trick. 3 consecutive goals is a natural hat trick.

Answer 4

it comes from field hockey, this sport has been around longer then most sport played today. this game had several names for the sport like field hockey and hurling dated back to the middle ages. and when a player use to score 3 goals it was called a hat trick.


yes it's it's first time the term hat trick was used in North America but it was around much longer then that. like i said in several different sports called, Hurling, Field Hockey, Cricket and so on. they started to trough there hats in Toronto for a hat trick but that's not where the term hat trick comes from its much older then North America its self. over 400 years old.


GO HABS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Answer 5

In the Victorian era, the term "hat trick" refered to a common trick by magicians, where the magician used a top hat. At first, they would appear before the audience wearing the hat, which they would remove from the head and put upside down on a nearby table (on stage). Later in the show, the magician would take out 3 rabbits, one after another, from the hat.

In modern times, this phenomenon has largely referred to any three consecutive feats, goals, wickets etc. by the same player.

Answer 6

During a game,a player scored his third goal of the night, and the fans started throwing their hats on the ice. It became known as a hat trick.

Answer 7

It was started by a fan from Montreal. Every time a Hab would score three goals he would throw his hat out on the ice. He probably got the idea like one answerer said from a magician's trick.

Answer 8

A team owner (Toronto, I believe) used to offer his players a hat as incentive for scoring three goals in a game. It was a bowler or tophat, back in the 40's as I recall.

Answer 9

darts is an older game than hockey...throwing 3 darts in the same point area is called a hat trick... ...good luck

Answer 10

bak in the 1920's a player named Jean Hattrick was the first to score 3 goals in a game. this feat which happenes sometimes was named after him.