{"id":440402,"date":"2026-01-31T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440402\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:09:10","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-behind-record-30-hat-tricks-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440402\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats behind record 30 hat tricks in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL.com&#8217;s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL EDGE<\/a> puck and player tracker stats. Today, we identify key advanced metrics behind the League-record 30 hat tricks in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/alex-tuch-8477949\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tuch\u2019s<\/a> hat trick for the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday marked the 30th across the NHL since January 1, 2026, setting a new League record for the most in a single calendar month.<\/p>\n<p>The hat trick total for January 2026 surpassed December 1985 for the most games where a player has scored at least three goals. It was also the eighth straight day with a hat trick, tied for the second-longest streak in history behind a pair of nine-day stretches (April 3-11, 2021; Oct. 11-19, 1988).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some highlights from this record-setting month of hat tricks, including key advanced stats storylines behind the performances:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Of the 30 hat tricks in January, New York Rangers forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/mika-zibanejad-8476459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mika Zibanejad<\/a> was the only player to have multiple hat tricks in January 2026 (Jan. 2 against Florida Panthers in NHL Winter Classic; Jan. 17 against Philadelphia Flyers). It was the second time that Zibanejad had had multiple hat tricks in a single month (other: March 2021), and he became the first NHL player with multiple hat tricks in a single month during the regular season since Vegas Golden Knights forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/tomas-hertl-8476881\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomas Hertl<\/a> in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL.com&#8217;s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-440402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}