9 Russian hockey players who scored a hat-trick in the NHL playoffs, Bure, Ovechkin, Malkin, Kaprizov, Datsyuk
Kirill Kaprizov’s amazing season continues into the NHL playoffs. The first game with “St. Louis” failed neither the Russian nor the entire “Minnesota” (“savages” burned 0:4), but in the second match “Wild” and their leader took a convincing revenge.
Incredible! Kaprizov scored the first hat-trick in the NHL playoffs, entering the history of Minnesota
They were definitely not tired of admiring Kaprizov, so it is not surprising that after the game, Cyril treated her abilities with enthusiastic words. Minnesota fans can definitely be understood, because they have never had such a player in the entire history of the club, which has more than 20 years.
Yes, Kaprizov scored Minnesota’s first playoff hat-trick and his first Stanley Cup hat-trick. A trick with a hat, Kirill got into the elite company of Russian hockey players, he managed to score objects three times in one cup game. Before Kaprizov, there were only 8 such players.
Pavel Bure (Vancouver), 1992 playoffs
The first cup treshka of the Russians in the Stanley Cup at the expense of Pavel Bure. In the 1992 playoffs, the 21-year-old Vancouver rookie helped the Killer Whales turn around an ill-fated division semi-final with the Winnipeg. After four games in the series, the Canucks were trailing 1-3, and Russkaya Raketa didn’t stand out, but then came the turning point. In the fifth game, Bure scored 4 (1+3) points, and scored a hat-trick in the sixth. Both Vancouver meetings received high marks (8:2 and 8:3), and the Jets nailed the agility of the young Russian leader. In the decisive seventh match, the Killer Whales defeated the opponent again (5:0) and advanced to the next round, where they lost to Edmonton.
It was revealed that during his short but very bright feature in the NHL, Bure scored a total of 20 hat-tricks, however, after his debut season, he never again managed to repeat this trick in the playoffs.
Valery Kamensky (Colorado), 1997 playoffs
Stan Cup draw – 1997, Colorado reader in the status of the owner of the trophy, and Kamensky was one of the “avalanches” belonging. However, by the fifth game of the conference quarterfinals with Chicago, Valery and the team were completely out of shape. Kamensky had only one goal in the last 14 playoff games, and the Avalanche came to Denver with an off-road appearance that saw the Blackhawks return to the series. But in the fifth game, “Colorado” clearly demonstrated the opponent, who is the champion here, and the Russian leader of the “avalanches” broke through. Avalanche smashed Chicago 7-0, Kamensky, with all possible help from Joe Sakic, scored a hat-trick.
In the next game, Valery scored more, and he helped his team start the next round. The Avalanches eventually made it to the conference finals, where they defeated the eventual champion Detroit in six games.
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Pavel Datsyuk (Detroit), 2008 playoffs
The next Russian hat-trick in the Cup had to wait 11 years, and it was already drawn up as the masters of another generation. Magician Datsyuk had a magical playoff in 2008, the best match for the Sverdlovsk resident was the third game of the conference finals with Dallas. The Red Wings by that time were already leading in the series 2-0, and the benefit performance of Datsyuk, who upset his old friend Marty Turko three times, almost finished off the Stars. The hat-trick took place with the active participation of Henrik Zetterberg and Thomas Holmström, who did an excellent assistant job.
Pavel Datsyuk
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Then Detroit still happened to Dallas to bring things to the sixth match, but in the same Datsyuk scored the winning goal, and in the Stanley Cup final, the Red Wings turned out to be stronger than Pittsburgh.
Alexander Ovechkin (Washington), 2009 playoffs
In the subsequent Stanley Cup, one of the most spectacular battles in the history of Washington and Pittsburgh took place on the stage of the Eastern Conference semi-finals, adorned with a powerful “shootout” between two great players of their generation – Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. The leaders of the “capital” and “penguins” in the second game of the series exchanged hat-tricks, but the winning puck was on the account of the Russian super sniper.
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“Washington” then led the confrontation 2-0, but 2009, as we know, was the year of “Pittsburgh”. As a result, the Penguins took this stubborn and beautiful series in seven matches and reached the final of the East.
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Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh), 2009 playoffs
There, Pittsburgh met the Carolinas, and at this stage, Evgeni Malkin intercepted the title of the hottest penguin from Crosby. In different matches with the Hurricanes, the Russian leaders of the Pennsylvanians scored 9 (6 + 3) points, and scored a hat-trick in the second game. Pay attention to the third puck – this is Gino’s signature style, for which we love his game so much.
With success among Pittsburgh’s leaders, there was little chance of being left without a Stanley Cup that year. Despite the fact that Detroit tried very hard in the finals personally, and, as we remember, it was not Malkin or Crosby who grabbed the cup for the Penguins in the seventh game, but the modest Max Talbot, who scored a double.
Evgeni Malkin
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Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh), 2014 playoffs
Five years later, Malkin pulled the hat trick again in the playoffs and became the first Russian to score two hat-tricks in a Stanley Cup game. Then Eugene could not score in five consecutive matches of the quarterfinals of the East with Columbus, and his Pittsburgh suffered with uncompromising uniforms, but in the sixth series of the game, Gino took everything into his own hands. He scored three times against Sergei Bobrovsky and led the Penguins in the next round, where, however, Pittsburgh was waiting to defeat the Rangers.
Vladimir Tarasenko (St. Louis), 2015 playoffs
It was Tarasenko’s first strong season for the Blues, and in the playoffs, Vladimir also acted as the locomotive of the St. Louis attack. In six games in the series with the Minnesota, he scored six games, and three of them came in the second game of the series.
Tarasenko helped to find the second home meeting and compare the score in the series, but in the long distance of the confrontation, all the “savages” turned out to be stronger and did not let the “Blues” into the semi-finals of the West.
Andrey Svechnikov (Carolina), playoffs 2020
For five years, the Russians could not score three times in the NHL Cup match, but in 2020 Andrey Svechnikov shot. Yes, you can squeamishly note that the play-in round that the Russian shipped the Rangers three-washers is not a real playoff yet, but the NHL calculates the statistics of that stage in the standings of the cup matches, so let’s leave the verbiage.
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In the second game of the series with the Rangers, Svechnikov and partners quickly decomposed the Rangers into molecules, the Russian striker hit Henrik Lundqvist three times.
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Denis Guryanov (Dallas), 2020 playoffs
Guryanov is perhaps the most amazing and unexpected guest in this company. The forward did not find stars from the sky in Dallas and there can be no progress in the NHL, but the 2020 playoffs, in which the Stars reached the Stanley Cup final, was Guryanov’s best segment across the ocean.
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In that draw, Denis became a free sniper, and all thanks to poker at the Calgary goal. Guryanov scored his historic achievement in the sixth match of the Western quarter-final series and finally broke the resistance of the “lights”.
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In the future, he didn’t score so much, but he became the predominant part of the sensational Dallas, who eventually fought Tampa for the Stanley Cup.