Hat tricks have a rich history in hockey, but it didn't start there. For NPR's Word of the Week, we trace the term's some 150-year-history and why it's particularly special on the hockey rink.

West Indies fast bowler Romario Shepherd claimed four wickets in five balls, including a hat-trick, as the twice champions thumped Scotland by 35 runs in a Group C match of the Twenty20 World Cup in ...

Dozens of perfectly good hats were removed, tossed and ultimately wasted Tuesday night on a Kraken goal that didn’t count. Jared McCann’s second Kraken hat trick, and first at Climate Pledge Arena, ...

The back-to-back hat trick games between Evan Bouchard and Mattias Ekholm is the first time that two defencemen have recorded back-to-back hat tricks in NHL history. There were four first career hat ...

Mattias Ekholm capped a historic night for Oilers defensemen by scoring into an empty net to complete his first career hat trick. Perry Nelson / USA Today via Imagn Images It’s not often that Connor ...

The Edmonton Oilers are no strangers to making goal-scoring history, but they did so in a new way on Monday. Superstar Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl weren't involved, either. During their 7-4 ...

EDMONTON --Mattias Ekholm scored his first NHL hat trick for the Edmonton Oilers, who ended the Anaheim Ducks' seven-game winning streak with a 7-4 victory at Rogers Place on Monday. The 35-year-old ...

The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team defeated Bemidji State 10-3 on Senior Day. Seniors Caroline Harvey and Kirsten Simms both scored hat tricks in the victory. A late first-period goal by ...

The injured Wild certainly aren’t intimidated by the improbable. They ended the Maple Leafs’ seven-game win streak at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena in a 6-3 rout Monday, Jan. 19, while still missing five ...

PHILADELPHIA — Mika Zibanejad became the Rangers’ all-time leader in power-play goals and his three-goal performance tied the team record for most career hat tricks in New York’s 6-3 win over the ...

January 11 - Marat Khusnutdinov netted four goals and an assist, Pavel Zacha also registered his first career hat trick, and David Pastrnak tied a Boston franchise record with six assists, helping the ...

BOSTON (AP) — Pavel Zacha recorded his first career hat trick — one of his goals coming while most of New York’s players were in the locker room at the end of the first period — and the Boston Bruins ...