Facts and Figures: Point's 91-second hat trick powers Lightning | NHL.com (2024)

Center scores sixth-fastest three goals in NHL history

Brayden Point stole the show on a wild night in the NHL and needed less than two minutes to do it.

The Tampa Bay Lightning center scored his first NHL hat track in a 4-3 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena on Thursday, with all three goals coming in a 91-second span over the first and second periods, and all three on the power play.
It was the sixth-fastest hat trick in NHL history and second fastest in the NHL expansion era (since 1967-68); Derek King of the New York Islanders scored three times in 78 seconds against the Penguins on Oct. 15, 1991.

The only player in NHL history to score a faster hat trick on the road was Bill Mosienko,
who scored three times in 21 seconds
for the Chicago Black Hawks at the New York Rangers on March 23, 1952. Mosienko holds the record for fastest NHL hat trick in any game.
Point had the fastest three power-play goals by one player since 1956-57. That season was the first to allow a player serving a minor penalty to return to the ice when a goal was scored by the opposing team. The only instance of a player scoring three power-play goals faster than Point came prior to that rule change, when Montreal Canadiens center Jean Beliveau scored in a span of 44 seconds on Nov. 5, 1955 against the Boston Bruins.

Hat's not all

Point wasn't the only player to score his first NHL hat trick Thursday. New York Islanders forward Anthony Beauvillier had three goals and one assist to help the Islanders to a
7-5 win against the Rangers
at Barclays Center, which improved their record against Metropolitan Division opponents to 7-0-0 this season.
It was the the 15th regular-season hat trick by an Islanders player against the Rangers, and first since John Tavares on Oct. 15, 2011.
The two hat tricks on Thursday upped the total to 20 this season in the NHL. It's the fourth time in the past 14 seasons at least 20 hat tricks have been scored through the opening 285 games of a season. The others: 2010-11 (25), 2005-06 (23) and 2017-18 (21).

Of those 20 hat tricks this season, six have been scored by a player 22 years old or younger: Beauvillier (21), Boston Bruins forward David Pastrnak (22), who did it twice, Point (22), Winnipeg Jets forward Patrik Laine (20) and Arizona Coyotes forward Christian Fischer (21). Seventeen of the 81 hat tricks scored in 2017-18 were by players 22 and younger.

Double trouble

Move over, Pavel

Mike Hoffman set a Florida Panthers record when he extended his point steak to 14 games with an assist in a 7-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets. The forward, who has 16 points (nine goals, seven assists) in the streak, broke the Panthers record set by Pavel Bure in 1999-2000. Hoffman's point streak is the longest in the NHL this season and marks the third straight NHL season to have at least one player with a point in 14 consecutive team games. Three players did it last season: New Jersey Devils forward Taylor Hall (19 games), Laine (15) and Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon (14).

We're going streaking

Forward Max Domi had an assist on the tying goal to spark the Montreal Canadiens' 3-2 win against the Calgary Flames and extend his point streak to eight games (12 points; seven goals, five assists). It's the longest point streak by a player in his first season with the Canadiens since Martin Rucinsky had a 13-game streak in 1995-96.
Tavares scored a goal in the Toronto Maple Leafs' 5-3 win against the San Jose Sharks to become the fourth player since 1993-94 to have a point streak of at least seven games (5-5-10) in his first season with Toronto. The others to do it: Eric Lindros (seven games) in 2005-06 and Phil Kessel (seven games) in 2009-10; Auston Matthews had two streaks of at least eight-games in 2016-17.