>This should be good for extended discussion! It's always been my >understanding that a "hat trick" is three goals in a game; a "natural" hat >trick is three goals in a period, and a "pure" hat trick is three goals in >succession (w/o any other scores by your team coming between). ??? > >Dave Erickson >The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter >"We have met the enemy, and he is us!" I agree...this has been my understanding of it also and unless everyone that I've ever talked to and about hockey since I was old enough to(hmmm, lets see I utter the word puck when I was 2, I'm now 23...that would be 21 years...ok, so I exaggerate a bit). Anyway...what Dave said is how I understand it to be. A hat trick is 3 goals in a game, a natural hat is three in a period and a pure is three goals in succesion, nobody else scoring in between. Just my $.02 worth. ****************************************************************** [log in to unmask] www.uwrf.edu/sports/hockey.html Falcon Hockey 1988,1994 Champs 1993 Runers-Up No Excuses!!! Oct. 25-26 Falcons @ Air Force 7:00p.m. "The Zen philosopher, Basho, once told me, 'A flute with no holes is not a flute and a donut with out a hole is a danish." -Ty(Chevy Chase) CaddyShack ******************************************************************* HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.