Cutter Gauthier scored a hat trick for the second straight game on Tuesday night, leading the Anaheim Ducks past the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 at Rogers Arena and into a corner of the record book no player in his franchise’s history had ever visited. The full story of the night is in iimiTV’s Gauthier Scores Hat Tricks In Back-To-Back Games.
By Wednesday, the league had finished counting what the 22-year-old actually did, and the list is longer than the one that made headlines at the final horn. There is an NHL first, a franchise first, a 100-year list with seven names on it, and one question hanging over the rest of Anaheim’s Canadian tour: can he do it a third time?
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Cutter Gauthier Hat Tricks: The Records That Settled Overnight
Start with the league first. Gauthier is the first player in NHL history to record multiple power-play goals in three consecutive games, with six power-play goals across the run, and he now leads the league with eight power-play goals this season. The Ducks’ power play has scored 10 times in three games, the most by any team in a three-game span since Minnesota in 2008, and Anaheim is the 10th team in NHL history with three or more power-play goals in three straight games. The unit is converting at a league-best 38 percent.
The age list is the one that reframes the week. Gauthier is the seventh player aged 22 or younger in the last 100 years to score eight or more goals across a three-game span. The other names are Patrik Laine, Teemu Selanne, Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky (who did it twice), Mike Foligno and Mike Bossy. He is also the second Ducks player ever with multi-goal games in three straight contests, joining Paul Kariya in 2000-01, and Anaheim has scored five or more goals in five straight games for the first time in franchise history.
What Gauthier Said After A Franchise First
“It’s obviously pretty cool. Kind of surprised some of those other legends before me haven’t done that with how good they were. And obviously a really special moment, but really happy we got the two wins and we can keep this thing going.”
Gauthier pointed the credit at the power-play unit and at assistant coach Jay Woodcroft, who flagged the give-and-go with Beckett Sennecke that produced both of Tuesday’s power-play goals: Gauthier moved the puck down to Sennecke at the goal line, then took the return inside the circle for the one-timer. “He gave me a little nod as I was skating through the line there,” Gauthier said. “Very good hockey mind behind the bench, and we’re super lucky to have him.” Sennecke, whose four assists made him the youngest Ducks player ever with a four-assist game, described the unit’s mood plainly: “I feel like as a group, every time we go out there, we think we’re going to score. We’re rolling pretty hot right now.”
The Ducks said it loudest on their own channels after the game, posting: “Back-to-back hattys for Cut! The FIRST consecutive hat tricks in Ducks history!” Vancouver’s side of the night was simpler. “They obviously have good players, I think that everyone knows that across the league,” said Jake DeBrusk, who scored twice in the loss. “They made us pay in that respect.”
Thursday In Edmonton: A Shot At A First In 109 Years
Here is the number hanging over Thursday night. In 109 years of NHL hockey, no player has ever scored a hat trick in three consecutive games. Eight players, from Cy Denneny in 1917 to Teemu Selanne in 1993, followed back-to-back hat tricks by scoring twice in the third game, one goal short. Brady Tkachuk took his run at it in October and fell short. Gauthier, who went nine games without a goal before this eight-goals-in-three-games burst, takes his attempt on Thursday at Rogers Place against the Edmonton Oilers, the same club Anaheim eliminated in the first round of last spring’s playoffs.
The setting cuts both ways. Edmonton has seen Gauthier already this season, the Oilers’ penalty kill will be built around his one-timer from the circle, and Anaheim plays again Friday in Calgary, so there is no rest built into the schedule either way. But the Ducks arrive with the league’s hottest power play behind him and a winger who has spent three games beating the coverage drawn up to stop him.
Whatever happens Thursday, the week has already changed Gauthier’s season. He sits at 10 goals and 15 points, with points in five straight games, and the long-term contract he signed in September is starting to look like the frame for Anaheim’s next era rather than a bet on it. Tuesday made him a trivia answer. Thursday could make him the only name in a category that has been empty since 1917.
