Charm on the Rocks: A Slapshot Prequel (Slapshot Prequel Trilogy Book 3) by Heather C. Myers

Author:Heather C. Myers [Myers, Heather C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“So where are these hats going, anyway?” Madison asked Amanda as they rolled in about two carts of various hats that had been tossed onto the ice after Kyle Underwood’s third goal of the period, or, in hockey language, after Kyle Underwood’s hat trick. The game had just ended and it was Amanda and Madison’s night to collect the hats and sort them out after the game.

“One of three options,” Amanda said, wheeling them to the laundry room that was right between the men and women’s locker room. “The player who makes the hat trick keeps all of them, throws all of them away, or donates all of them. Ken always let the player choose what he wanted to do with them, but it’s always been tradition that the player keep three hats – symbolizing each goal he scored – and donate the rest to charity. Which is why we’re here, in the laundry room. The staff down here is going to clean them so they’re, you know, wearable, and donate them to a charity Underwood chooses. He picked out the three he wants to keep and I’ve already tagged those so when they come out of the wash, they’ll be delivered to his locker.”

“Wow.” Madison blinked, leaning against her cart and crossing her arms over her chest. “How did the tradition start, anyways? Who, like, just throws hat onto the ice because a hockey player scores three goals in one game?”

“It’s tradition!” Amanda exclaimed in a ‘duh’ tone. “How dare you not know this, Madison? And thank God you’ve admitted your ignorance to me. If you said this to even any amateur hockey fan, they would laugh in your face and then demand your resignation later as a Gulls Girl. Okay.” She finished pushing her cart to its intended spot and turned around, her brown eyes dark, serious. “The hat trick tradition started ninety years ago when a businessman handed out fedoras to players after a player scored thrice. Then, in the seventies, fans decided they wanted to get in on this so they started throwing hats into the rink to the point where the NHL actually amended its rule to say something like articles thrown on the ice won’t result in some kind of punishment for the home team for delay of game.” She smiled brilliantly. “And that’s the hat trick.”

Madison clapped a couple of couple times and returned the smile.

“I like that,” she said after the story sank in. “It’s cool.”

“Yeah, hockey has a bunch of traditions like this that other sports don’t,” Amanda said, nodding. “I’m going to head home, okay?”

“What about showering?” Madison asked. “Changing?”

Normally, the Gull Girls showered and changed back into their street clothes after every home game. They could leave their uniforms in their designated locker or put them in the laundry room if they needed to be washed.

“Actually...” Amanda let her voice trail off, looking away. The worry that had been etched in her brown irises before the game suddenly came back full force.

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