sports.yahoo.com — One of hockey's greatest traditions, the tossing of hats on the ice when a player scores thrice evolved from local businessmen handing out fedoras to players about 90 years ago. During the 1970s, fans built on that tradition by tossing hats on the ice, and the NHL eventually amended its rule book to say that "articles thrown onto the ice following
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threddenJun 4, 2009
The best is when its a "free hate giveaway night" and a player scores a hat trick. The Ice gets covered.
fireball9199Jun 5, 2009
The Penguins
allothersnsusedJun 5, 2009
They need to do way instain fans> who throw thier hats. becuse these hats cant frigth back it was on the news this mroing a fan in ar who had throw her three hats . they are taking the three hatts back to new york too fans to rest my pary are with the boyfreind who lost his htas ; i am truley sorry for your lots
Closed AccountJun 5, 2009
Kind of flawed login behind keeping new looking hats. If a fan has head lice and wears a new cap, the new cap might have lice, but if the player does not have lice and throws an old hat, the old hat will not mysteriously become infested (except maybe by contact with the afore mentioned new hat). Bottom line all hats are evil and should be considered biological weapons. Biological weapons are WMD and the throwers terrorists. The mob acting in support of the hat throwers are equally dangerous so send them all the Gitmo and bomb Canada.Bet ya didn't see that one coming.
neo991lbJun 5, 2009
But be careful because if the hat throwing continues for too long, some whiny little bitch like Sidney Crosby will ask the refs to make an announcement to stop the hats and resume play.
hakluytbeanJun 5, 2009
GavinZac is right, as one of the links in the article points out - <a class="user" href="http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/455592">http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/455592</a> .From WP: "Taking three wickets in three balls entitled the bowler to receive a hat from his club commemorating the feat (or entitled him to pass the hat for a cash collection)". <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat-trick">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat-trick</a>The last part makes sense to me as I think those players would have been amateurs in competition for control of the game from professionals, so any excuse to raise money for a player would help keep that player 'amateur'.
d3mattJun 6, 2009
@2T0ne... That was forever and a day a go...
neillawsonJun 12, 2009
Thats why we can't have nice things
andrewdevlinJun 23, 2009
You usually wear an old "beater" hat just in case someone scores a hat-trick...you can't be that guy who doesn't throw it on the ice...