Gauthier Scores Hat Tricks In Back-To-Back Games

How to watch: Anaheim Ducks vs Vancouver Canucks, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 9 p.m. ET at Rogers Arena
TV (Canada): Sportsnet Pacific
Stream: Prime Video (Anaheim market), ESPN+ (USA)

A Goal In Every Period In Vancouver

Gauthier scored once in each period against Vancouver, twice on the power play, and finished with six shots on goal in 18:31 of ice time. Anaheim won the first period 2-1, won the second period 2-1 as well to take a 4-2 lead into the third, and then held on as Vancouver outscored them 2-1 in the final period to close within one. The Ducks never trailed on the night, and Gauthier supplied three of their five goals for the second game running.

The support scoring behind him was young and loud. Mikael Granlund finished with a goal and two assists, Leo Carlsson added a goal, Beckett Sennecke recorded four assists, and Jackson LaCombe added two assists. Anaheim’s power play went a perfect 3 for 3, continuing the special-teams run that turned Sunday’s game around, while Vancouver went 2 for 5 with the man advantage and outshot the Ducks 23-22.

Vancouver got two goals from Jake DeBrusk and one each from Liam Ohgren and Linus Karlsson, with Elias Pettersson recording two assists. It was not enough to protect home ice. Laurent Brossoit made 19 saves to win his second straight start for Anaheim after debuting for the club on Sunday, and Kevin Lankinen stopped 17 of 22 shots in the loss for the Canucks, who fell to 3-13-1. The Ducks improved to 7-7-1 and opened their three-game tour of Canada with a win, one week after Vancouver rallied from three goals down to beat them 6-5 in overtime in Anaheim.

Sunday Set It Up Against Ottawa

The first of the two hat tricks came on Sunday night at Honda Center, and it was the harder one. The Ottawa Senators led 3-0 after the first period before Anaheim scored six straight goals, the last four on the power play, to win 6-3. Gauthier started the comeback from in close early in the second period, then completed his second career hat trick with two power-play goals in 36 seconds early in the third, at 1:50 on a five-on-three and at 2:26 on the ensuing five-on-four.

“Trying to keep it simple, a lot of volume shooting,” Gauthier said after the Ottawa game, in comments reported by NHL.com. “The more I get pucks on the net, if they’re not going in, they’re creating good opportunities for my teammates and creating chaos.” He had 15 shots across the two games before Tuesday and five goals in his previous two outings, and the volume approach carried straight into Vancouver: six more shots, three more goals, and a second straight hat trick completed one period at a time.

Judd Caulfield had two goals and an assist on Sunday and Carlsson had three assists, his second straight three-assist game, while Brossoit made 19 saves in his first start for Anaheim. iimiTV covered that comeback in full in Gauthier Scores Hat Trick Against Senators. Sunday also made Gauthier, alongside Paul Kariya, one of only two Ducks players to record multiple hat tricks before age 23. Two nights later in Vancouver, he added a third before that birthday, and did it in the very next game.

Cutter Gauthier Back-To-Back Hat Tricks And The History List

Consecutive hat tricks are rare enough that the NHL keeps the full roll. When Florida’s Brady Tkachuk scored hat tricks in consecutive games in October, NHL.com historian Dave Stubbs counted just 84 instances of a player scoring three or more goals in consecutive games since the league began in 1917, with Tkachuk only the 65th player ever to do it. Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs, in February 2024, had been the most recent player on the list before Tkachuk. Gauthier now joins that company, three weeks after Tkachuk, and he did it against Ottawa and Vancouver on a Canadian swing.

The names above him on the list explain the company. Joe Malone, the NHL’s first superstar scorer, managed consecutive hat tricks four times between 1917 and 1922. Wayne Gretzky and Alex Ovechkin each did it three times. Mario Lemieux, Mike Bossy, Darryl Sittler and Matthews are among the players who did it twice. Only three players have ever done it in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. This is not a hot week category; across more than a century of hockey, it is a list that adds a name only every few years, and Gauthier is its newest entry.

There is also a ceiling nobody has reached. No player in NHL history has scored a hat trick in three straight games. Eight players, from Cy Denneny in 1917 through Teemu Selanne in 1993, followed consecutive hat tricks by scoring twice in the third game, one goal short of a three-peat that has never happened. Tkachuk took his own run at that record in October and fell short. Gauthier’s next game, the second stop on Anaheim’s Canadian tour, now carries the same live question: a third straight hat trick would be a first in 109 years of NHL hockey.

What It Means For Anaheim

For the Ducks, the two games change the shape of their season. Anaheim had lost seven of eight before Sunday, with only two home wins all year, yet the club has now scored at least five goals in five straight games, 11 of them across the two nights in this streak. A young core built around Gauthier, Carlsson, Sennecke and Caulfield drove both wins, and a power play that went 4 for 5 against Ottawa and 3 for 3 against Vancouver is suddenly one of the most dangerous units in the league.

Vancouver’s read is the opposite. The Canucks’ only win in their previous 13 games had come against these same Ducks a week ago, and a 5-4 home loss in which they scored four times and still lost drops them further into the league’s basement at 3-13-1. DeBrusk’s two goals and a two-assist night from Pettersson gave the home crowd a push in the third period, but Anaheim’s lead, built one Gauthier goal at a time, held.

The record watch now follows the Ducks across Canada. Hat tricks in back-to-back games placed Gauthier beside Gretzky, Ovechkin, Lemieux and Matthews on a list that stood at 65 names last month. One more three-goal game on this tour would put him alone at the top of it, in a category that has been empty since 1917.