Every Red Wings Hat Trick from the 21-22 Season
By Dane Nowland
Taking a look back at every hat trick scored by the Red Wings during the 2021-2022 season.
Unfortunately, there were only 3 hat tricks scored by the Red Wings this season so this article won’t be as long as I would like it to be. I found the list of every hat trick ever scored by the Detroit Red wings at Hockey Reference.com. It surprised me that there has only been a total of 291 hat tricks scored in all the team’s 95 seasons so far.
It’s funny how memory works cause seemed to me like the Wings used to score anywhere from 7 -10 hat tricks a season when I was a kid watching them in the 90s. Looking back at the numbers tell a different story. Below are the hat tricks scored by the team in each of their last 4 Stanley Cup winning seasons.
- 96-97 Season: 4 Hat Tricks
- 97-98 Season: 2 Hat Tricks
- 01-02 Season: 4 Hat Tricks
- 07-08 Season: 5 Hat Tricks
One of the positives of this list of hat tricks is that none of them included an empty net goal so they are a little more legit in my mind. I like it better when all the goals get through a goalie, although it certainly counts as a hat trick if you get an empty netter at the end of the game. You could argue that Dylan Larkin’s first goal of his was an empty net goal, but when the goalie leaves the net on his own, that is his own fault!