Though he went an entire year without scoring a hat-trick, Alex Ovechkin made up for lost time Friday with his second consecutive hat trick.
The first time he had back-to-back hat tricks was the first and second game of the season in 2017. He scored four goals against Montreal.
Only two other players scored back-to-back hat tricks for the Caps. Dennis Maruk did it on 11/15/1980 and Peter Bondra did it on 2/5/1999.
Here is more info about Ovi. Oddly enough, he doesn’t already have this team record:
Alex Ovechkin extended his point streak to 13 games to equal a career high set in 2006-07.