Ovechkin scored his first goal at the 5:01 mark of the second period, when he tipped in a puck in traffic, cutting Utah’s lead to 3-2. He tied the score at 3-3 with 8:32 left in the second, chipping the puck under the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin completed the hat trick with an empty-netter with 5.2 seconds left. The 40-year-old passed Brett Hull for fourth-most hat tricks in NHL history.<\/p>\n
Alex Ovechkin had his 184th career multigoal game on Thursday. Only Wayne Gretzky (189) has more in NHL history.\u00a0Chris Gardner\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Ovechkin has scored hat tricks against 21 different franchises, passing Hull for the most in NHL history, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n
Anthony Beauvillier<\/a> and Rasmus Sandin<\/a> also scored for the Capitals, while Logan Thompson<\/a> made 35 stops for Washington.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 27, 2026, 12:32 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — Alex Ovechkin had his 34th career hat trick,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-547980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547980","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=547980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}