It’s OK to admit it if you hadn’t heard Joel Kiviranta’s name prior to this — because he’s earned your attention, now.
In just his third game inside the bubble, and only his 14th at the NHL level in total, Kiviranta has etched his name in hockey history, having completed a hat trick in overtime of Game 7 for the Dallas Stars in their second-round triumph over the mighty Colorado Avalanche.
Kiviranta is the first rookie in NHL history to strike three times in a seventh game, and the first to complete the feat since Wayne Gretzky did it 27 years ago.