Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews scored his sixth hat trick of the season, breaking former San Jose Sharks forward Jonathan Cheechoo’s single-season record for most hat tricks during the salary cap era.
Matthews also tied Pat LaFontaine for the most hat tricks by a U.S.-born player, with 13 in his career.
Against the Anaheim Ducks, Matthews scored goals 46, 47, and 48 on the season in just 52 games.
Matthews passes Cheechoo’s cap-era record of five hat tricks in a single season, set during the 2005-06 season. Cheechoo finished the season with 56 goals and won the Rocket Richard trophy.
Although he moved away at a young age, Matthews is a San Francisco Bay Area native. He was born in San Ramon, about a 45-minute drive from the SAP Center.
Matthews has a hat trick in back-to-back games for the second time this season. He is the first player to do that in NHL history since Wayne Gretzky did it during the 1983-84 season.
Gretzky holds the record for most hat tricks in a single season with ten. He did that twice in his career. First during the 1981-82 season and the 83-84 season.
The chase to 70 goals for Auston Matthews is officially on. Nobody has scored 70 goals in a single season since 1992-93, when Teemu Selanne and Alexander Mogilny each scored 76 goals.
Sharks fans won’t forget Cheechoo’s 56-goal season, but given the way Matthews has scored this season, it was only a matter of time before this record was broken.
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