Hat Trick(s)?!

"Gordie Howe? What do you mean Pop Tom" queried Dillon Krok to the Hooter's enigmatic statement. Dillon and teammates had just emerged from the Palisades Ice Rink where they had just completed a weekend sweep of another league opponent. In this evening's contest the Bear Mountain Bears fell meekly (5-1) to our renegade marauders. With the game barely 20 seconds old Ryan McLinskey rifled the first of his three first period goals against the first of a besieged duo of over matched goal keepers from North Rockland. Ryan added another in the second period before Sean Gordon lost his shut out bid. The Hooter explained his high compliment to the befuddled #22 by recounting the Hooter's vivid memories of #9 blistering wrist shots into the net from the top of the circle against The Gump and his tenacity in driving the net in the Old Garden. "Dillon, Ryan got the natural hat trick tonight. But you got a Gordie Howe hat trick that makes me ever so proud. A beauty of a goal driving the net, a wonderful pass to assist on a Ryan wrister, and a boarding penalty (that'll surely lead to a fight in the Pee Wees next year). But please don't be playing hockey when you're 50 years old, I won't last that long!