On Tuesday night Patrick Eaves recorded a 'Gordie Howe Hatrick' with a goal, an assist and a fight. It wasn't much of a fight since Tucker jumped him after Eaves knocked Tucker over on a clean hit. Tucker being dirty is not the point though. The interesting thing to me was that Gordie Howe only had 1 game in which he had a goal, a fight and an assist during his career. So if Eaves happens to do this again I think that it should be changed officially to a 'Patrick Eaves Hatrick'.

When Shane O'Brien scored his first career NHL goal last week against The Red Wings, he too had a Gordie Howe Hat-Trick. He fought Brad Norton.

I have never heard anything about winning the fight. From what I know it is just being in a fight. I have seen a few sites reporting that Eaves had the Gordie Howe and they were talking about it after the game as well. Wikipedia might say it is a win but the guys who cover hockey seemed to say it was just being in the fight.

While it certainly makes sense that you'd have to win the fight for it to be considered a Gordie Howe hat-trick, I'm not completely sure that that's the case. When O'Brien got a goal, an assist, and a fight (nobody really won the fight, it was more of a wrestling match), the commentators were quick to announce that he had gotten a Gordie Howe hat-trick. I guess we'll never reallly know, as there isn't exactly a rule book on the finer aspects of a Gordie Howe hat-trick.