Comments on: A New Tradition!

By: Jasonicus

Jasonicus — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:58:33 +0000

Are you kidding me? Do you think OV was the first to do this? Holy hell, get a grip. How delusional can you be?

By: James

James — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:19:41 +0000

Yeah, I’d hate to rain on your parade, but a couple years ago, Erik Christensen did the same thing in Pittsburgh against the Flyers and hats rained down after his shootout goal.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:24:34 +0000

I like the idea of an Alex Ovechkin hat trick, but the problem is that he usually isn’t that good at shootouts. Plus we usually don’t need a shootout to win when he scores twice. Then again, Howe didn’t actually get too many Howe Hat tricks.

Whoever said that 4 goals, assist and a broken nose is an AO hat trick has a better idea; Should I ever see that happen again, I will immediately think Ovechkin.

If you want to look at something he does fairly regularly: goal, assist, big hit.

On the actual issue: It seems to me very unlike hockey fans to worry about whether Gary Bettman counts it as an ‘official’ hat trick in order to celebrate a player’s accomplishment of getting three goals, no matter how he had to do it. The goal actually mattered a whole lot, and if it hadn’t been OV, but maybe someone like Bradley who has never had an NHL hat trick, wouldn’t we be happy to celebrate our fan favorite’s ‘pretty-much-a-hat-trick’? I don’t care about the official goal total, I care that this guy worked his ass off all game and managed to get that third one in for the team when he had the chance. If you have the shootout, you might as well enjoy what you see, and celebrate the cool moments that come from it.

Hats off!

By: Cathy W

Cathy W — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:33:19 +0000

No, Just NO! Your encouraging this is just beyond words. It is NOT a hat trick and encouraging this cheapens one of the great hockey traditions as real hat tricks are quite an accomplishment for a player. I’ll assume those throwing hats didn’t know it wasn’t a hat trick, but this is an opportunity for you to teach them the rules. If you really want DC to be taken seriously as a Hockeytown, then teach the actual rules to the newer fans. Sorry, but I can see an opposing team complaining about delay of game if the Caps shooter is NOT the last shooter and fans start throwing hats on the ice for a pretend hat trick because now they have been has been encouraged to do so.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:32:10 +0000

Next we should retire every single Cap that ever strung together a few good seasons or just cause they played here 10 years… Puke

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:31:53 +0000

hah, “celebrate”, ignorance is universal

Seriously, not everything needs to be spun. It’s already bad enough that the Caps celebrate and encourage people to ring 160 dB cowbells for half the game.

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:29:21 +0000

Why educate the fans when you can celibrate ignorance

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:25:55 +0000

Uh, no Ted. This was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen from a fanbase.

Shame on you for supporting this.

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:08:40 +0000

It was great to see, I agree Ted - but I don’t know about having to wait until the shootout to see a win

By: What's a hat trick?

What's a hat trick? — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:39:13 +0000

It was a fun ending to a game that the Caps deserved to win in regulation. Mandy and Gavin, I think you and the others complaining on various message boards miss the entire point: It was a silly way for fans to celebrate what proved to be the decisive moment of the game. The only ones looking stupid are fans taking themselves so seriously that they cannot enjoy fun/silly moments during a game.

I’ve been a Caps fan my entire life and I threw my hat on the ice. I will so again - if only to tweak those fans taking themselves a bit too seriously. Anyway, what’s a hat trick? Go Caps!