Mitch Marner Sets Stanley Cup Final Hat Trick Record in 6 Minutes

3 articles · Updated · Bleacher Report · Jun 7

Marner scored three times in just over six minutes in the second period of Game 3, setting the fastest hat trick in Stanley Cup Final history.
Those goals came after Vegas had two early second-period scores overturned and after Tomáš Hertl broke a 0-0 tie, turning the game into a 4-0 Golden Knights lead over Carolina.
All three goals were consecutive, making it a natural hat trick and only the second such single-period feat in Stanley Cup Final history.
The outburst was Marner's second hat trick of the 2026 playoffs; in his first season after 9 years in Toronto, he entered Saturday with a playoff-leading 24 points in 18 games.
Game 3 opened in Las Vegas with the best-of-seven series tied 1-1, and Marner's surge put Vegas in position to seize a 2-1 Finals lead.

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