- Mitch Marner scored a natural hat trick in just 6:10 in Game 3
- He broke Maurice Richard’s 69-year-old Stanley Cup Final record
- Read below for the goals and his new Vegas playoff points mark
Mitch Marner just bumped Rocket Richard out of the record book.
The Golden Knights winger scored a natural hat trick in a span of 6:10 during the second period of Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final against Carolina on Saturday night. Nobody has ever completed one faster in the Final. Catch the goal that sealed it:
NHL Public Relations confirmed the new mark, which knocked off the 6:21 record Maurice Richard set in the 1957 Final. That number had stood for 69 years:
Marner tacked on an assist before the period ended, and the four-point frame staked Vegas to a 4-0 lead through 40 minutes. He is up to 10 goals and 28 points in 19 games this spring.
Those 28 points also broke the Golden Knights record for a single playoff run. Jack Eichel held the old mark with 26 during the 2023 Cup championship. The league saluted the new franchise record:
All of it landed three days after former Leafs enforcer Jay Rosehill called Marner a playoff ghost who “played like a mouse” in Toronto. Marner keeps making that rant age badly.
Carolina refused to let the record stand as the only story. The Hurricanes scored three times in 39 seconds in the third period, the fastest three goals by one team in a Cup Final game, then tied it late to send Game 3 to overtime.
