<Wayne Smith writes>
> Subject:      Responses to Miscellaneous
>
> > Blaine Moore got his first hat trick as a Badger on Friday night.  NOT
> > ONE HAT was thrown on the ice. All the media people were speculating
> > that the fans were in shock at how many goals Wisconsin had scored (or
> > that they had let CC back into the game).  Basically, it was a boring
>
> This custom of throwin hats on the ice when a player gets a hat trick--
> how widespread is this?  It happens pretty often here in "Wildcat
> scoring land" (would that our defense were currently doing as well as
> our offense), but in my short time here over two seasons I've never
> seen it done at Lakeview Arena.
>
 
I never saw a single hat thrown on the ice at RPI, nor any other
ECAC games I saw.  (Did see fish, and sieves after certain goals).
It sounds like a nice tradition (how dangerous can a thrown hat be?).
 
/matt