{"id":465844,"date":"2023-10-15T06:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465844"},"modified":"2023-10-15T06:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:09:55","slug":"matthews-5th-player-ever-to-start-campaign-with-2-hat-tricks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/matthews-5th-player-ever-to-start-campaign-with-2-hat-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews 5th player ever to start campaign with 2 hat tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auston Matthews notched his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> hat trick in 2 matches to start the season, and the Toronto Maple Leafs won against the Minnesota Wild 7-4.<\/p>\n<p>William Nylander finished with 2 goals and an assist for the Maple Leafs, and Ilya Samsonov stopped 28 shots. Calle Jarnkrok scored and assisted, and Tyler Bertuzzi also notched. Mitchell Marner and Morgan Rielly each had 2 assists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TWO GAMES, TWO HAT TRICKS \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p>Auston Matthews is the first player to start the season with back-to-back hat tricks since Alex Ovechkin in 2017-18 \ud83d\ude2e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/agTpDOz8cO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/agTpDOz8cO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1713369723184771316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Auston is the 5<sup>th<\/sup> player in the National Hockey League history to begin a campaign with back-to-back hat tricks, joining \u00a0Alex Ovechkin, Cy Denneny, Joe Malone, and Reg Noble.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to show my best skills each match that I play in,&#8221; Matthews shared after the victory. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a guy who is thinking about what happened before. It&#8217;s all the current moment. Just trying to be on the ice and give my everything to help Toronto win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auston Matthews notched his 2nd hat trick in 2 matches to start the season, and the Toronto Maple Leafs won against the Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465845,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16950,17844,16734],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[21725,17890,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Maple Leafs' player began the new season with 2 hat tricks.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465848,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465844\/revisions\/465848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465844"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465844"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}