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Upon further review, Jarome Iginla gets a hat trick

By Helene Elliott
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Jarome Iginla is so good, he added a goal to his scoring totals more than three hours after Canada’s 8-0 victory over Norway in the men’s hockey tournament.

Everyone at Canada Hockey Place believed that Iginla had scored Canada’s final goal, at 18:11 of the third period. It appeared to be his third goal of the game, so fans tossed dozens of hats onto the ice.

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However, the official scorer gave the goal to Rick Nash. A few minutes after the game Iginla acknowledged that he had tipped the puck into the net, but in true selfless hockey-player fashion he didn’t make a fuss over it.

The International Ice Hockey Federation reviewed the goal anyway, and at about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday announced a scoring change that gives Iginla the goal.

So it now reads Iginla from Nash and Sidney Crosby.

So there.

-- Helene Elliott in Vancouver

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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