NHL Roundup: Gauthier and Robertson Score Hat Tricks on an 11-Game Tuesday

Eleven games, 75 goals, two hat tricks, a franchise record in Anaheim, a milestone in Washington and a comeback in Montreal that rewrote the NHL record book — Tuesday, November 3 was the loudest night of the young season. This roundup starts at Bell Centre, where the Winnipeg Jets spent 57 minutes looking like a team headed for a tenth straight loss and then scored four goals in two minutes and six seconds.

Montreal led 4-0. Owen Beck opened the scoring at 3:05 of the first period, Josh Anderson made it 2-0 before the intermission, and Cole Caufield scored power-play goals at 4:00 of the second and 46 seconds into the third. Jacob Fowler stopped the first 37 shots he faced and stood 2:39 from his second shutout in three games. Then Tyrel Bauer's first NHL goal bounced in off a dump-in that took a strange hop off the boards, Morgan Barron scored on a 2-on-1 at 18:03, and Kyle Connor — with Stuart Skinner pulled — scored twice from the right circle 27 seconds apart, at 19:00 and again with 33 seconds left, the tying shot deflecting in off Noah Dobson's stick. Dylan Samberg finished it 3:30 into overtime, taking Adam Lowry's feed after Gabriel Vilardi stripped Lane Hutson along the boards. It is the latest four-goal comeback in NHL history, passing the Los Angeles Kings' rally that began at 52:46 on Nov. 10, 2007, and the fastest four goals the Jets have ever scored, breaking a franchise mark from 1984. Winnipeg (5-8-3) won for the first time since Oct. 13; Montreal (9-3-3) saw a five-game win streak end but extended its point streak to eight. Bauer added an assist and a fight for a Gordie Howe hat trick. We broke the whole sequence down in our full story on Connor's two goals and the record rally.

The night's other hat trick belonged to Cutter Gauthier, and his came with history attached. Gauthier scored once in each period in Vancouver — power-play one-timers from the left circle at 17:07 of the first and 18:25 of the second, both off Beckett Sennecke passes, then a catch-and-release wrist shot at 4:11 of the third for a 5-2 lead — as Anaheim held off the Canucks 5-4. Two nights after scoring three against Ottawa, the 22-year-old became the first player in Ducks history with hat tricks in back-to-back games. He has eight goals in three games, six of them on a power play that went 3-for-3 Tuesday and is 10-for-12 over the three-game run, and he is the first player in NHL history with multiple power-play goals in three straight games. Sennecke finished with a career-high four assists. Jake DeBrusk scored twice in the third to drag Vancouver (3-13-1) within one, but Laurent Brossoit's 19 saves closed it out. Gauthier's run gets its own story: back-to-back hat tricks, a first in Ducks history.

Jason Robertson needed barely five minutes to wreck Washington's night. After Joel Kiviranta opened the scoring on Dallas' first shot, Robertson scored a natural hat trick at 0:23, 3:18 and 5:43 of the second period — a power-play wrister from the left circle, a roofed shot after sidestepping Jakob Chychrun, and a point shot through traffic that chased Logan Thompson after four goals on 11 shots. The 5:20 span is the third-fastest natural hat trick in franchise history, behind only Tom McCarthy (5:15 in 1984) and Jamie Benn (5:17 in 2018), and it was the seventh hat trick of Robertson's career. Mikko Rantanen's second-period goal was his 800th NHL point, making him the fourth Finnish player to reach the mark after Teemu Selanne, Jari Kurri and Saku Koivu. Washington still nearly stole it: Jordan Kyrou, Boone Jenner and Chychrun scored in the second, and after Roope Hintz made it 6-3 early in the third, Justin Sourdif and Ryan Leonard — the last with 1:02 left — cut it to 6-5 before time ran out. Jake Oettinger made 20 saves and is 7-0-0 in his career against Washington. The win came at a cost: Miro Heiskanen left in the second period with an upper-body injury and was set to be reevaluated Wednesday.

Columbus delivered the night's rout. Mathieu Olivier scored 28 seconds in, and after Cale Makar answered, the Blue Jackets scored four times in 8:23 of the second period — Jake Christiansen, Cole Sillinger, Charlie Coyle and Valeri Nichushkin, the last facing Colorado for the first time since the June trade — to chase Scott Wedgewood, who allowed four goals on nine shots. Coyle finished with two goals and four points, tying his career high, Olivier added a goal and two assists, and Cam Talbot made 27 saves in a 7-2 final that set a season high for Columbus and ended Colorado's three-game win streak.

In Pittsburgh, Vegas ground out the kind of win that had been eluding it. Tomas Hertl scored on the power play in the first period and, after Tommy Novak and Rickard Rakell put the Penguins ahead in the third and Trevor Connelly tied it on a breakaway, Hertl scored again with 35 seconds left — a quick shot in the crease off Mark Stone's pass, on the power play, for a 3-2 win. The Golden Knights (10-5-2) killed all six Pittsburgh power plays, including a 5-on-3 that lasted 1:22 without a shot, and Adin Hill made 23 saves. Mitch Marner's assist on the first goal stretched his point streak to 11 games (one goal, 15 assists), and Jack Eichel's two assists made him the fastest Golden Knight to 50 multi-assist games. Evgeni Malkin missed the game with a lower-body injury and is day to day. The full account is in our story on Hertl's late winner.

The rest of the slate kept pace. In Newark, Jack Hughes scored twice 45 seconds apart in the second period and Arseny Gritsyuk decided the shootout in the fourth round as New Jersey beat Edmonton 4-3; Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves in his first home start since the Oct. 23 trade from Winnipeg, Connor McDavid's assist ran his NHL-record season-opening assist streak to 16 games, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins played his 1,038th game, passing Kevin Lowe for the most in Oilers history — that record night is its own story here. Nashville beat Carolina 4-1 behind Roman Josi, Ross Colton and Juuse Saros (29 saves), handing Pyotr Kochetkov his first loss after 10 straight wins to open the season. Tampa Bay set a franchise record at 7-0-0 at home, beating Detroit 4-2 on two Brayden Point goals, though John Gibson left the Red Wings' net after the first period with a lower-body injury. Utah won 3-2 in Toronto on Nick Schmaltz's third-period power-play goal — the Mammoth's league-leading 20th power-play goal of the season — with Mikhail Sergachev running his point streak to a career-best eight games, a run we covered here. Minnesota won 4-2 in Philadelphia for its fifth straight road win, and Dylan Garand's 32 saves carried the Rangers past St. Louis 3-1, the shutout spoiled with 52 seconds left.

Wednesday's table is smaller but pointed: Chicago visits Florida, where Seth Jones — 18 points in 15 games on the Panthers' blue line — faces one of his former teams on national TV; Ottawa is at Buffalo, Calgary at Seattle, and San Jose at Los Angeles. After Tuesday, the league has earned the quieter night.