Cutter Gauthier scored in his seventh straight game for Anaheim on Wednesday night, November 11, and the goal put him in company untouched for 105 years. FINAL: Nashville Predators 4, Anaheim Ducks 2. Gauthier’s first-period goal at Honda Center was his 14th in a seven-game span and his 12th in the Ducks’ first six games of November.
Gauthier Ties 105-Year-Old NHL Record
The records fell in layers. The Associated Press reported that Gauthier is the first player since 1921-22 to score 12 goals in his team’s first six games of a calendar month, matching the mark set that season by Punch Broadbent and Joe Malone. The same goal made him the first NHL player since Mario Lemieux and Alexander Mogilny in 1992-93 to score 14 goals in a seven-game span, as the NHL’s own game recap records. A seven-game goal streak, a career-best nine-game point streak and 16 goals in 18 games on the season complete the picture of a 22-year-old who has owned November.
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The month has been relentless. Gauthier already has three hat tricks in November alone, against the Ottawa Senators on November 1, the Vancouver Canucks on November 3 and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday, November 8, when his third hat trick of the month carried Anaheim to a fifth straight win. He had two goals through his first 11 games of the season; he has 14 in the seven games since, a binge the league has not seen in more than three decades. By November 5 at Edmonton he already owned a Ducks record with nine goals in four games, and the run has only grown since.
The Goal That Made History
The record goal came at 8:08 of the first period. Beckett Sennecke cut into the slot and the puck was poked off his stick by Adam Edstrom; it ran to Gauthier just below the right hash marks and he swept it past Justus Annunen for a 1-0 Anaheim lead. Nashville answered 21 seconds later, Jayden Struble scoring at 8:29 after the puck hit Shane Wright in the chest, and the Predators never trailed again.
Nils Hoglander put Nashville ahead 2-1 at 16:02 of the second period, scoring from between his legs on a drive to the net, and Wright made it 3-1 at 11:55 of the third with his first goal as a Predator, ten days after arriving in a trade from Seattle; Roman Josi’s assist on the play was the 800th point of his NHL career. Mikael Granlund cut it to 3-2 at 12:11 with a one-timer off a Sennecke feed, and Steven Stamkos closed it at 16:04, redirecting a Mavrik Bourque feed on a 2-on-1 rush. Annunen made 27 saves for Nashville (10-4-5), winners of six straight for the first time since March 2024, while Laurent Brossoit made 18 saves for Anaheim (10-8-1), whose five-game win streak and run of eight straight games with at least five goals both ended.
What Gauthier’s Run Means Now
For iimiTV’s hockey readers, the number that matters is the company. Lemieux and Mogilny set the seven-game standard in 1992-93, one of the highest-scoring seasons ever played, and Broadbent and Malone set the calendar-month standard in 1921-22, in a different sport in everything but name. Gauthier now stands beside all four, in a lower-scoring era, at 22, in the first month of his fourth NHL season after a 41-goal campaign in 2025-26.
The streaks are still live. Gauthier’s goal streak sits at seven games, tied with Corey Perry for the third-longest in Ducks history behind Teemu Selanne’s runs of eight and 11, and his point streak is a career-best nine. Anaheim’s homestand continues against the New York Islanders on Saturday, and every game Gauthier plays right now is a game the record book has to be opened for.
