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.

This NHL season has felt like a nightly adrenaline rush. Teams are finding themselves in overtime each week, hat tricks are popping up in every division, and both rising stars and established greats ...

In only nine periods of pre-season hockey, the Pittsburgh Penguins have registered two hat tricks thus far in 2024-25. First was Jesse Puljujarvi and, most recently, Evgeni Malkin. Jaromir Jagr is one ...

Scoring a hat-trick is a very tough task - for some, at least. Some of the beautiful game's most elite strikers go their whole career without netting three goals in a single game. But, contrary to ...

Dimitar Berbatov and Nwankwo Kanu have scored two of the Premier League's greatest hat-tricks Getty Images Eberechi Eze made history in the north London derby on Sunday. Not only was his hat-trick the ...