Laine’s historic night was the highlight of a 8-4 road victory by the Jets in St. Louis. The following is a list of the deeper statistics on Laine’s Saturday night performance:
- Became just the 14th player in NHL history to score three-plus hat tricks through the first 22 games of a season.
- Took over NHL goal scoring lead.
- Second all-time with seven hat tricks before age 21 (Gretzky 12).
- First player with three hat tricks in a month since Alex Kovalev in February 2001.
- 11 goals since Monday evening.
- 15 goals in the Month of November.
- Two hat tricks in a week.
- Has 99 career goals – only six players (Gretzky, Carson, Hawerchuk, Stamkos, Kovalchuk, Bellows) have recorded 100 career markers before the age of 21.
- Five goals would be tied for second on Kings’ goal-scoring list.
- Five goals on five shots – perfect shooting percentage.
- First 20 year old to score five goals in a game since Gretzky (twice in 1981).
- Six career hat tricks – sixth all time on Jets’ hat trick list (Jets 1.0 and 2.0).
- First five-goal game since Franzen scored five in 2011.
- Christopher Haley was awarded $1 million dollars through Safeway’s Score to Win challenge (50K a year for 20 years).
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