In the opening game of the season, Mikko Rantanen scored a huge 2+2. Vancouver’s Brock Boeser made it even better, scoring four goals in Edmonton’s net.
The Colorado Avalanche arrived in their season opener as a guest of the Los Angeles Kings. The match was his eighth full season in the NHL Mikko Rantanen show, because the Finn banged in the match with tremendous power 2+2.
In his career, Rantanen has now had a four-point night a total of 18 times. However, the power forward was calm about his scoring In an interview with NHL.
– Playing with good players helps. I missed part of training camp and was just excited to play.
Colorado started scoring in the 7th minute of the game Nathan MacKinnonwhen Rantanen served a perfect pass from behind the goal to his teammate who was in front of the goal.
Rantanen got his second assist point of the evening at the beginning of the second set, when Cale Makar hit the visitors already two goals away. Less than a minute from now and the Kings goalie Cam Talbot got to dig the puck from behind his back again, when Rantanen tapped in a precise shot for Colorado’s already secure 3–0 lead.
You can see the main image of Rantanen’s opening goal in the video on the spot.
However, the home team Kings got into the game and went into the third set with a 3–2 lead over the visiting team. Rantanen skilfully directed his team’s first hit in the third period. In the end, the third set clearly went to Colorado 2–0, and thus the team could celebrate the victory with a score of 5–3.
As usual, Rantanen played in his team’s first court together with MacKinnon. The duo was completed by someone who moved from Montreal to Colorado in the summer Jonathan Drouin.
The opening of the season has been favorable for the 26-year-old Rantanen, because a year ago when Colorado started its season against Chicago, Rantanen scored four power points (0+4). Rantas thus became the third player in NHL history to score four power points in consecutive season openers. The previous two other players have been Peter Stastny In the 80s as well Syd Howe in the 40s.
Boeser scored goals
Connor McDavid’s represented by the Edmonton Oilers started their season as a guest of the Vancouver Canucks. The match turned out to be a sad play for Edmonton, because Vancouver lost by Brock Boeser leading a total of eight goals Edmonton goal guards by Jack Campbell and by Stuart Skinner behind.
Vancouver also had a four-point power night JT Miller (1+3) and Elias Petterson (1+3). Edmonton’s only and 4–1 hit was scored by a German striker Leon Draisaitl McDavid’s pass in the second period of the match.
In the opening of the Canadian teams’ season, the Toronto Maple Leafs, who crave success, and Joel Armian recently sent to the AHL side by the Montreal Canadiens. Montreal started the match brightly by taking a promising 2-0 lead early in the second period, but then Toronto woke up. Sheldon Keefen the team from Toronto scored three goals in a row.
In the third period, Montreal got back into the game, and Jesse Ylönen the goal gave Montreal a 5–3 lead. Toronto striker Austin Matthews however, stepped into the picture by hitting his hat-trick and sending the match to overtime. The overtime was goalless and the home team Toronto won the shootout with 6–5 goals. He sunk the decisive penalty shot Mitchell Marner.
Montreal-Toronto 5-6
Ottawa-Carolina 3-5
Chicago–Boston 1–3
Winnipeg-Calgary 3-5
Edmonton-Vancouver 1-8
Colorado–Los Angeles 5–2
Hat tricks on the rise
In the last season 22–23, a total of 96 hat tricks were hit in the NHL, which is slightly less compared to the previous season 21–22, when a total of 102 hat tricks were hit. In general, however, hat tricks have been on the rise, because for example in the 16–17 season, only 59 of them were hit.
Last season, the Buffalo Sabers forward scored the most hat tricks Tage Thompson, who succeeded in the trick four times. Three players managed to do the hat trick three times last season. Two of them are Finnish: Sebastian Aho and Rantanen.
of active NHL players With Aleksander Ovechkin has the most hat tricks. During his long career, he has scored at least three goals in one match a total of 30 times. Finnish active players have the most hat tricks Patrik Lainea (10).
The most hat tricks per season has been done by none other than Wayne Gretzky, who has repeated the trick twice. Gretzky scored ten hat tricks in the 81–82 and 83–84 seasons. He also has the most career hat tricks of any NHL player (50).
Aleksander Ovechkin’s and Wayne Gretzky’s goal totals have been corrected on 12 October 2023 at 11:24