PRAGUE - They don’t give hat tricks when one of the goals goes into the other net.
So, officially, Jordan Eberle was credited with two.
One bounced in off his body and caused France to move into a 3-3 tie seven minutes into the third period here Saturday at the IIHF world hockey championships. Eberle didn’t know whether to laugh or throw up his arms and dance with the other players from France.
“It was just lucky,” he said of the puck sent toward the net by Damien Fleury that hit a skate and then went in off Eberle’s body.