Brady Tkachuk is on a scoring tear that has already pushed him into rare NHL territory.
The Florida Panthers forward delivered his second straight natural hat trick Thursday night, capping it with an overtime winner in a 3-2 comeback victory over the Vancouver Canucks. Tkachuk scored all three Florida goals, erased a two-goal hole late in regulation and finished the job 2:23 into overtime.
According to Reuters, he became the first NHL player since Auston Matthews in February 2024 to post hat tricks in back-to-back games.
That kind of run doesn’t happen often, and Tkachuk’s week has been even stranger in the best possible way. It started Tuesday against the Columbus Blue Jackets, when he scored three straight goals in a little more than eight minutes during the second period of Florida’s 7-3 win. That was a natural hat trick of its own, and it came with a notable assist story attached: Matthew Tkachuk set up all three goals, making it the first time an NHL player had assisted on every goal of a sibling’s natural hat trick.
Then came Thursday, which somehow topped it.
Vancouver took a 2-0 lead into the final stretch of the third period before Tkachuk caught fire. He scored twice in the last nine minutes of regulation to force overtime, then buried the winner early in the extra period. Three goals, another hat trick, another comeback.
The latest outburst also put Tkachuk in a small slice of Panthers history. He became the third Florida player to record hat tricks in consecutive games, joining Noel Acciari and Pavel Bure. He also became the second player in franchise history to finish a hat trick with an overtime goal, alongside Aleksander Barkov.
For Florida, the timing matters. The Panthers had been trying to build momentum and had not been stacking wins the way they’d like earlier in the season. Thursday’s rally gave them consecutive victories, and it came with contributions from Akira Schmid, who made 15 saves, and Seth Jones, who had two assists.
Vancouver, meanwhile, dropped its sixth straight game.
Tkachuk’s six goals in two games have given Florida a major lift, and they’ve also made him impossible to ignore. Opponents are going to key on him now, but for the moment, he’s the story - and one of the most explosive early-season scorers in the league.
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