Joel Kiviranta, Artturi Lehkonen and Mikko Rantanen have worn hats this season.

Joel Kiviranta (94) and Mikko Rantanen (96) are the Finnish forwards of the Colorado Avalanche. PDO

During Christmas week, the Colorado Avalanche became the first club in NHL history to have three Finnish players score a hat trick in the same season, i.e. three goals in the same game.

Mikko Rantanen has registered three hat tricks this season: 9.10. Vegas Golden Knights, 13.11. LA Kings and 10.12. Pittsburgh Penguins.

Joel Kiviranta succeeded in hat work on 22.12. against the Seattle Kraken, Artturi Lehkonen 27.12. against the Utah Hockey Club.

Rantanen is number four in the Finnish all-time hat statistics. They are ahead of him Jari Kurri [23], Teemu Selänne [22] and Patrick Laine [11]. Sebastian Ahol there are eight hat tricks, Olli Jokinen seven.

The NHL’s number one is naturally Wayne Gretzky 50 for a hat stamp. by Mario Lemieux the balance is 40, Mike Bossy 39.

Kurri is ranked 11th in the hat statistics, Selänne is ranked 12th.

Gretzky played in his wildest painting years of the early 1980s through two ten hat tricks. Bossy and Lemieux have been able to nine hats and Brett Hull eight hats for the season. The best Finnish quotations are Kurri’s and Selänte’s five-hat seasons.

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