Why don't we have a name for when a player scores 2 goals in one game ?

[93gilmour93]

Call it....

He dropped a Deuce

 

[TheDeuce]

It's a deuce.

As in "Ovi dropped a deuce tonight."

Call it....

He dropped a Deuce

Yup, I could go for this. So long as the "He dropped a Deuce on his head repeatedly" jokes don't follow. My head can't take much more abuse.


m.

 

[tfwnogf]

sloppy seconds

 

[Stealth JD]

He scored “his second”.

Thats what it’s called. A second goal. The word for two goals is called a “pair”, if you’re looking for a term indicating a number of goals scored.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

A brace sounds like what you wear when you throw your back out celebrating your second goal in a game.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

I just deleted Facebook earlier because the ridiculousness of that platform was just pissing me off, and then I come to HFBoards and read this kind of thread?

Cmon man.

 

[Romang67]

I don't know why people are so upset about this idea. The likely answer why it doesn't have its own term is because it's not an uncommon enough events either in hockey or in most other sports. It will probably continue to not have it's own term because it's a pretty common occurrence. 21 players have done it 6+ times this year. For reference, two goalies have had 6+ shutouts this year.

But it's not like it's unheard of that hockey takes a term from another sports and adopts it as their own. Hockey didn't invent the term hat-trick, but it's an uncommon event and it already had a readily available term to steal.

 

[Dabeast]

X player’s got a huge pair

 

[Giant Panda]

Cricket is cringe and hatty came from cricket

The term "hat-trick," referring to three consecutive successes, originated in cricket where a bowler taking three wickets with three consecutive balls was rewarded with a hat.

That's a bit of a simplification.

Hockey's connection to hat tricks is a bit more complicated than that.

Hat tricks are a combination of cricket's hat tricks and the culture within Montreal and New York at the time.

Hats were a big part of hockey culture at that time. It was customary to tip your hat to a great performance (in a performative way). Hat tipping was a big part of early NHL history, there was a lot of culture built around hockey and hats.

The Hat Trick (or Toronto Hat Trick) came from when a player wanted to buy a hat but couldn't afford it. The store owner, Taft, told the player he could have the hat if he scored 3 goals on the Leafs. That player, Alex Kaleta who was never a prolific scorer, went on to get 3 goals and the store owner started a promotion to give a free hat to any player who could score it. Toronto hat trick used the cricket term but also the double connotation of tricking the store. It spread pretty quick, first to Montreal where the Henri Henri hat company offered the same (throwing Hats on the ice started there, they printed cards to tuck into your hat to identify it so you could get it back) and then became quite established when the New York Ranger's junior team built much of their brand around the Hat Trick tradition.

So saying that it comes from cricket is an oversimplification for sure.

The 'Hat Trick' in Hockey Explained by Henri Henri

Explore the history of the Hat Trick in the NHL and Henri Henri's iconic role in this cherished tradition. Timeless elegance meets hockey milestones.

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“Hat Tricks” - Everything & Anything You Ever Wanted to Know About “Hat Tricks”

If you were entertaining a visitor from Mars and brought your visitor to a hockey game, how would you explain all those hats thrown onto the ice by fans in the crowd after a player scores three goals in the game? Admit it, the hockey hat trick is an action that requires some explanation for those

www.rihhof.com

 

[kingsholygrail]

A player scoring two happens a lot more often than three. I know in soccer even scoring one goal is difficult.

 

[AvroArrow]

Call it the John Scott for his legendary 2 goals in the all-star game, en route to winning the all-star game MVP

We'll never see a performance like that again

 

[Mandar]

 

[Garbageyuk]

Why's everyone in a hurry? Can't we just call it "two goals in a game"?

That’s what we call it where I’m from.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I propose we call it the Half Thornton.

 

[LuckyDay]

That's a bit of a simplification.

Hockey's connection to hat tricks is a bit more complicated than that.

Hat tricks are a combination of cricket's hat tricks and the culture within Montreal and New York at the time.

Hats were a big part of hockey culture at that time. It was customary to tip your hat to a great performance (in a performative way). Hat tipping was a big part of early NHL history, there was a lot of culture built around hockey and hats.

The Hat Trick (or Toronto Hat Trick) came from when a player wanted to buy a hat but couldn't afford it. The store owner, Taft, told the player he could have the hat if he scored 3 goals on the Leafs. That player, Alex Kaleta who was never a prolific scorer, went on to get 3 goals and the store owner started a promotion to give a free hat to any player who could score it. Toronto hat trick used the cricket term but also the double connotation of tricking the store. It spread pretty quick, first to Montreal where the Henri Henri hat company offered the same (throwing Hats on the ice started there, they printed cards to tuck into your hat to identify it so you could get it back) and then became quite established when the New York Ranger's junior team built much of their brand around the Hat Trick tradition.

So saying that it comes from cricket is an oversimplification for sure.

The 'Hat Trick' in Hockey Explained by Henri Henri

Explore the history of the Hat Trick in the NHL and Henri Henri's iconic role in this cherished tradition. Timeless elegance meets hockey milestones.

www.henrihenri.ca

“Hat Tricks” - Everything & Anything You Ever Wanted to Know About “Hat Tricks”

If you were entertaining a visitor from Mars and brought your visitor to a hockey game, how would you explain all those hats thrown onto the ice by fans in the crowd after a player scores three goals in the game? Admit it, the hockey hat trick is an action that requires some explanation for those

www.rihhof.com

It did origin in Cricket
The Alex Kaleta story is a legend the league tries to promote (though the story might be true)

GuelphMercury.com - News - Guelph's tricky claim

web.archive.org

they even put it in an old commercial (which I'm not able to find).

An anthropologist will tell you that Indo-European cultures have an obsession with patterns of the three, just as Asian and First Nations people have patterns of four rooted in their culture, and Semitic peoples have fourteen (it's where the significance of seven comes from in the Bible). Three is a magic number, a trilogy of books, etc., etc. It's part of the collective unconscious.

Kaleta actually scored four that night, but you notice there's no name for four goals in a game. There's also all sorts of variants of hatricks: Gordie Howe Hatrick, etc. I've even heard the term "double hat trick". Its why There's no name for a pattern of two because there's no instinctive significance to it.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

From now on posting a thread that totally bombs is a “brookbank”

 

[Big McLargehuge]

The Germans call it Doppelpack (in football/soccer, that is). Sounds better than "brace" to me.

Doppelpuck. There, settled. Double puck.

 

[24 others]

Doppelpuck. There, settled. Double puck.

Here is an idea!

 

[miscs75]

Gatcombed

 

[Sky04]

Nobody in soccer calls it a brace either.

 

[SI90]

it’s called the “Gatcomb.”

 

[LokiDog]

I was pretty sure it was called “a 2 goal game”.

 

[Jurivan Demidovsky]

Why not. It's called a brace bro

 

[Ghost of Murph]

Maybe not goals, but I hereby decree that a player getting 2 assists in a game has performed a "Hutson."

 

[Staniowski]

It.didnt catch on in a big way, but there have always been some people who call two goals a brace.

I had two hockey coaches who called it a brace.

It's not new.