New Century Hat Trick

Back when I started going to hockey games as a kid riding the bus in to the Big Red Barn, aka Olympia Stadium, in Detroit, old men -- i.e. guys about a dozen or more years younger than I am now -- wore hats, the kind JFK had when he got harangued by Khrushchev at their first meeting. and tossed them on the ice when a Wings player scored three goals in a game, a mighty rare occurrence in those days. Last night at Madison Square Garden, Ranger captain Chris Drury got his third goal thirty-five seconds before the end of the game. But in 2008 -- and for years now -- it's a Cap Trick.