{"id":888020,"date":"2026-10-19T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888020\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:22:07","slug":"brady-tkachuk-leads-3-stars-of-the-week-had-back-to-back-hat-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888020\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Tkachuk leads 3 Stars of the Week, had back-to-back hat tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013 Florida Panthers left wing Brady Tkachuk<\/a>, Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid<\/a> and Minnesota Wild left wing Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> have been named the NHL\u2019s \u201cThree Stars\u201d presented by GEICO for the week ending Oct. 18.<\/p>\n

FIRST STAR \u2013 BRADY\u00a0TKACHUK, LW, FLORIDA PANTHERS<\/p>\n

Tkachuk, buoyed by back-to-back natural hat tricks, led the\u00a0NHL with 6-4\u201410 in four contests to propel the Panthers (5-2-2, 12 points) to a trio of wins. He collected an assist, his first point with Florida, in a 5-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres Oct. 12. Tkachuk then became to record a natural hat trick in consecutive games, notching 3-1\u20144 in a 7-3 triumph over the Columbus Blue Jackets Oct. 13 before scoring three times (including the tying goal with 12.8 seconds remaining in regulation and his 13th career overtime winner) in a 3-2 comeback victory against the Vancouver Canucks Oct. 15. Tkachuk additionally became the third player in Panthers history to post a hat trick (of any kind) in back-to-back appearances, joining Noel Acciari (Dec. 16-20, 2019) and Pavel Bure (Feb. 10-14, 2001), as well as the first player on any NHL team to achieve the feat since Auston Matthews from Feb. 15-17, 2024 (w\/ TOR). Tkachuk finished the week with a pair of helpers, in an 8-3 win versus the Seattle Kraken Oct. 17, as Florida became the first team in League history<\/a> to register a natural hat trick in three straight contests. The 27-year-old Tkachuk, one of 31 NHL players (and three Panthers) with at least 10 points already this season (6-4\u201410 in 9 GP), has compiled 219-254\u2014473 through 581 career NHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Florida Panthers left wing Brady Tkachuk, Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid and Minnesota Wild left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-888020","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\/888020","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=888020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}