The Tampa Bay Lightning have had 55 different games in the regular season and post season with a player scoring three or more goals for a hat trick. This has been accomplished by 25 different players wearing a Lightning jersey. Perhaps none is more famous than Chris Kontos when he set a franchise record with four goals in the first game of Lightning history, a mark that would stand for 21 years, 3 months, and 12 days until Martin St. Louis tied his record. In this series of Hat Trick Retrospectives, we’ll go back over some of the hat tricks in Lightning history.
Before they were the Arizona Coyotes, Purcell got his first career hat trick against the Phoenix Coyotes.
