Best single game accomplishment.

[arrbez]

And lost badly.

lol, obviously. That's what makes Tucker so awesome. He loses 3/4 of his fights and keeps on coming.

If Patrick Eaves was on the bench back then, it may have been a different story

 

[Psycho Papa Joe]

Messier's guaranteed win night, and then going out and getting a hat trick.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Mario's "record" is like the player who misses the cycle because he legs out a double instead of stopping at first base. It's not recorded as a cycle and gets no historical place in a book, but it's just as effective, maybe even moreso, than the cycle.

I could argue that Sergei Fedorov scoring all 5 goals, including the OT winner, in a 5-4 win over Hartford was more meaningful than Mario's 5 goals, since one was just a gimme empty-netter.....

Except the cycle happens about 10 times in any given season and Lemieux's "cycle" has happened once in the history of the game.