His team holding a late two-goal late over the feeble Vancouver Canucks and with the net empty on the other end of the ice, Logan Couture had no intentions of coming to bench so close to his first career NHL hat trick.
Sitting on 20 career two-goal games, and having scored a pair of goals already on the night, Couture’s coach and his teammates all wanted him to finally seal the deal on Tuesday at Rogers Arena, too.
“I think the guys knew it had been [20] two-goal games,” Couture told CSN California after the game. “The guys were telling me to stay on the ice – I was going to stay on the ice to end the game regardless.