Grace on the Rocks: A Slapshot Prequel (Slapshot Prequel Trilogy Book 2) by Heather C. Myers

Author:Heather C. Myers [Myers, Heather C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Okay Dad, I’m sure you’ve told me this before, but what is a hat trick?” Emma asked as they left their seats. The game had just finished and the three players of the game had all skated out and dispersed their sticks to waiting fans. The Gulls had managed to beat the Prisoners by one point, with the final score being five to four. Kyle Underwood had received the number one spot, and even though he gave his stick to a random person cheering in the stands, he turned around and locked eyes with her, giving her a smile. Like a secret smile shared just between the two of them. She responded with a miming of tipping her hat to him.

“I mean,” she continued, “I get that a player scores three goals in a game, but why is it called that? And why do people actually throw hats onto the ice?”

“Let me get this straight,” Jeremy said. “We’ve been going games since you were ten years old, and you’re still not familiar with what a hat trick is and the tradition behind it?”

“Dad, I was ten,” Emma said flatly. “I had books, an iPod, and food, and you never actually made me pay attention before.”

Jeremy explained just what a hat trick was and how it came to be that fans – including Jeremy himself – threw any sort of headgear onto the ice. After Kyle’s third goal of the game, Emma watched as hundreds of people tossed various hats onto the rink, including baseball caps, fedoras, and flat caps that normally adorned the heads of golfers. However, the majority of them were Gulls hats, some looking to be brand new, bought solely for the purpose of being thrown on the ice. It seemed like a waste of fifteen dollars to buy an already too- expensive hat just to throw it away because a player happened to score three goals in one game.

“You’re not appreciating the fact that for a player to score three games in one game is amazing,” Jeremy said. “It’s phenomenal. It’s cause to celebrate.”

“What happens when the player scores six goals in one game?” Emma asked. “Do they get credited with two hat tricks or is it called something else?”

“You know, stuff like that never happens anymore. The Phantom – Joe Malone – played for a team called the Quebec Bulldogs way back in 1920 and he scored seven, count them seven, goals in one game. Can you believe that?”

Emma would have responded had someone not bumped into her. She had never seen the stadium this crowded before. Even with a win, fans filed out of the rink before the top three players were announced in order to get out of the parking lot before heavy congestion occurred. But now, fans seemed to hang around, discussing the game, the respective teams, and even Ken Brown’s murder and Brandon Thorpe’s absence. People claimed he was arrested, others claimed he was just brought in for questioning. Some people claimed the goalie was innocent while others claimed he definitely did it.

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