Zach Harrison showed up to practice Monday afternoon and his hockey stick was nowhere to be found.

It was the stick he used in through Minnesota State’s first four games of the season — the stick he used to score three consecutive short-handed goals on Friday night at the Alltel Center.

“I just started using it,” said Harrison, a junior center. “It wasn’t too worn out yet.”

But the stick had been wrapped up, put in the mail and shipped off to Toronto where, starting in December, it will it be displayed in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame officials contacted Minnesota State and requested a memento from Harrison’s hat trick, which was just the sixth of its kind in NCAA Division I history and the first in more than a decade.

“I scored, maybe, one hat trick in my high school career, and that was when we beat a team 22-0 or something,” said Harrison, who was named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s defensive player of the week Tuesday. “I haven’t had any since then. To have them all be short-handed, it’s kind of a cool feat to have that under my belt. I’ll be able to look back and smile and think about that.”

According to College Hockey News managing editor Adam Wodon, Harrison’s feat isn’t the first natural short-handed hat trick. In 1988, Harvard’s C.J. Young scored three shorties in a span of 49 seconds over two periods.

“Wow,” Young, who scored five goals that night, told Wodon. “It’s amazing someone remembers something like that. ... The memories of that team and that experience — I didn’t even think at the time how significant it was.”

Harvard went on to win the national title that season.

The trick has been accomplished three times since then. Colgate’s Jayson Greyerbiehl did it against Yale a year later, and St. Cloud State’s George Awada did it against Michigan Tech in 1998.

Harrison has received several calls and text messages from family and friends since Friday’s 5-1 victory over North Dakota.

But there’s nothing like a call from the Hall.

“I’m just blown away,” Harrison said. “I don’t think it’s sunk in yet.”

Harrison, who has been killing penalties for the now-13th-ranked Mavericks since he was a freshman, had just one short-handed goal for his college career before he gave his team a 3-1 lead over the Sioux midway through the second period Friday.

Just 53 seconds into the third period, He jumped a pass deep in the offensive zone and scored to put the Mavericks up by three goals.