For the first time in his National Hockey League career, Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos of Markham, Ontario scored four goals in a single game. He accomplished that feat on Thursday in a 7-4 Lightning win over the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place in Edmonton. It was on a night where the Oilers set a franchise record for most shots in a single game with 57 and still lost. Stamkos becomes the second player to score four goals against the Oilers 2023-24. He follows Brock Boeser of the Vancouver Canucks, who scored four times in an 8-1 Canucks win over the Oilers on October 11. Interestingly, Stamkos and Boeser are the only two players to score four goals in a game in 2023-24.
Stamkos now has 12 career hat tricks. He opened the scoring from Nick Paul of Mississauga, Ontario and Nikita Kucherov at 1:07 of the first period on the power-play. Stamkos then tied the game at three at 6:48 of the third period from defenseman Haydn Fleury of Carlyle, Saskatchewan, and Conor Sheary. Stamkos then scored the game-winner at 14:02 of the third period from Sheary to put the Lightning up 5-3, and closed out the scoring from defenseman Calvin de Haan of Carp, Ontario and Kucherov with seven seconds left into an empty net.
Two Canadians scored for the Lightning. The other was Anthony Cirelli of Etobicoke, Ontario.
In 2023-24, Stamkos has 14 goals and 16 assists for 30 points. He is a -12 with 14 penalty minutes, 16 power-play points, one game-winning goal, 90 shots on goal, 102 faceoff wins, nine blocked shots, 20 hits, five takeaways, and 16 giveaways.
With the win, the Lightning improve to a record of 14 wins, 12 regulation losses and five losses for 33 points. They are in ninth place in the Eastern Conference.
