2014年4月30日 · If they took any stock in the posterity, they may want to give 79-year-old Sammy Taft a call. Taft was the Senators’ mascot when the old club won the Stanley Cup in 1927.

2022年9月23日 · Sammy Taft ran a hat shop in downtown Toronto that gave out free hats to any NHL player that scored a three goals in one game at Maple Leaf Gardens.

When Chicago Blackhawks winger Alex Kaleta visited Sammy Taft’s Toronto haberdashery in January 1946 before a game with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he fell in love with a fedora. But Kaleta—who ...

2023年8月18日 · On my walk at Beth Tzedec Memorial Park, Toronto, with hat in hand, I discovered the grave of celebrated hatmaker, Sammy Taft. Sammy made hats for generations of men at his store at 303 Spadina Avenue just south of College Street from the 1940s up until the mid 80’s. Incredibly Taft sold up to 10,000 hats annually in the 40s from his iconic ...

2012年2月28日 · Damieon Royes of Big It Up hat shop, commemorates Sammy Taft who was the originator of the hat trick. +++research, direction, writing, production:Camille Tur...

2015年5月9日 · But the Hockey Hall of Fame recognizes Sammy Taft, a colourful Toronto hatter, as the originator of the hat trick. Regardless of the validity of his claim, he was an oversized personality, whom the Toronto Star once described as “the last of the crowd of Spadina chuchems and gonifs—wisenheimers and wheeler-dealers…ready to sacrifice ...

Kaleta made a bet with the store owner, Sammy Taft, that if he scored three goals in the game Taft would give him a free hat. Taft knew that Kaleta was not much of a scorer and, in addition, it was difficult to score three goals so he accepted the bet.

2007年3月19日 · Originally coined in the game of cricket, the term was introduced to hockey by Toronto businessman Sammy Taft. In the 1930s and 40s, Taft would promote his hats by giving them to an NHL player...

2022年11月26日 · Sammy Taft, as a young lad, was the team mascot for the Ottawa Senators when they won the Stanley Cup in 1927, a team full of Hall of Famers and also well dressed men.

2023年10月16日 · Winger Alex Kaleta of the Hawks came into Sammy Taft's hat shop on Spadina Ave., in Toronto, looking for a new lid. Admiring a Fedora on display, he lamented to Taft that he was short of cash...