Gauthier nets third hat trick in 5 games, as Ducks remix Penguins
Draped in the boldly bright green and purple of Disney’s District 5 Ducks, Anaheim continued to dive deep into its Bombay chest of offense with Cutter Gauthier's third hat trick in five games and another three power play goals in a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday at Honda Center.
Key points
- They fought pretty hard there in the third, but we were able to keep the streak going." The 22-year-old has already tied the Ducks franchise record for hat tricks in a season, with Frank Vatrano the last to score a trio of hat tricks in 2023-24.
- Gauthier (17 games) is the fastest player in Ducks history to reach five multi-goal games, besting Teemu Selanne’s 20 games in 1997-98–the Finnish Flash’s Ducks franchise-record 52-goal campaign.
- After scoring just two goals in the first 11 games, Gauthier has scored 13 goals in a six-game goal streak and is third in the league with 15 goals.
2 power play unit in the third period for a 4-0 lead, and Gauthier sealed the game with a hat trick goal into the empty net.
Additional details
- He’s hotter than a firecracker." Kris Letang scored a power play goal, as the Penguins pulled their goalie for the extra attacker with over 12 minutes remaining, to get on the board in the third period.
- That's something that you can work off of, but I think that, right now, we're happy with the way the power plays, really, really carrying the team." Anaheim has not earned a shutout since the season opener of the 2024-25 campaign, over two years and 181 games ago.
- Certainly describes the Mighty effort the Anaheim Ducks iced in their first Hometown Remix game of the season.
- Mikael Granlund and Cutter Gauthier kicked off four-point nights on a first-period power play goal, as Granlund scored off a Gauthier rebound just as the power play was set to expire.
- Ducks league-best power play has 17 goals on 34 opportunities (50%) in the last six games.
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