Tkachuk Third Ever With Back-to-Back Natural Hat Tricks — SkimNews
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- Brady Tkachuk scored all three Florida goals in a 3-2 overtime victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night, with the hat trick spanning 11:12: a goal with 8:49 left in regulation, the equalizer with 12.8 seconds left, and the winner 2:23 into overtime.
- Tkachuk became only the third player in NHL history to record back-to-back natural hat tricks, following Petri Skriko with Vancouver in 1986 and Cy Denneny with the original Ottawa Senators in 1923.
- Tkachuk's second straight three-goal game came two nights after he scored three times in 8:03 of the second period in Florida's 7-3 win at Columbus on Tuesday.
- The Tkachuk family produced its first six-goals-in-two-games member: Hall of Famer father Keith Tkachuk had five goals in a two-game stretch on three occasions, while Florida teammate and brother Matthew has never exceeded four in two games.
- Tkachuk arrived in Florida via an offseason trade from Ottawa, where he spent eight years, for four draft picks; after six games he had just one point and zero goals, drawing heavy social media criticism before the surge.
- The last back-to-back hat trick in an NHL regular season was Auston Matthews for Toronto in February 2024; Mikko Rantanen (Dallas) accomplished it during the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Why it matters: The Panthers traded four draft picks for Tkachuk after he managed just one point and zero goals across his first six games, fueling online criticism of the deal. His back-to-back natural hat tricks — only the third such feat in nearly a century of NHL history — instantly validate the acquisition and establish him as a clutch performer in Florida.
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