Back-to-Back Hat Tricks for Alex Ovechkin

(Caps Outsider)

Though he went an entire year without scoring a hat-trick, Alex Ovechkin made up for lost time Friday with his second consecutive hat trick in the Caps’ 6-5 shootout victory.

The first time he had back-to-back hat tricks was the first and second game of the season in 2017. He scored four goals against Montreal.

Only two other players scored back-to-back hat tricks for the Caps. Dennis Maruk did it on 11/15/1980 and Peter Bondra did it on 2/5/1999.

Washington Capitals Hat Trick Tracker

Here is more info about Ovi. Oddly enough, he doesn’t already have this team record:

https://twitter.com/PR_NHL/status/1073763542590021634

But he is creeping up this list:

Most multi-goal games, NHL history:
Wayne Gretzky – 189
Brett Hull – 158
Mario Lemieux – 154
Gordie Howe – 147
Phil Esposito – 143
Marcel Dionne – 139
Mike Gartner – 135
Teemu Selanne – 131@ovi8 – 127
Mike Bossy – 127
Jaromir Jagr – 127#NHLStats pic.twitter.com/v38rSSNN2u

— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) December 15, 2018