Kiviranta scores hat-trick in game 7 including OT winner; 7th game 7 hat-trick in NHL history

[Neuf]

The legend has been written

 

[Spirits]

Well to be fair he looked better than anyone else scoring on the AHL goalie lol

Fair enough lol.

 

[Troy McClure]

Just one game. Hold your horses.

He's essentially the next coming if Mike Bossy. You can't convince me otherwise.

 

[LTIR]

Best player in the world !!!

Kiviranta > MacKinnon > Kubalik > McDavid

 

[kingsholygrail]

 

[crowi]

Pump the brakes there bub.

How many players had to score a hat trick in game 7 to make the team in the future though?

 

[Ippenator]

I think he is exactly a pretty good grinder for present high speed skating hockey. He is a very good forechecker and does pretty well in board battles for his size. He will occasionally score a goal or two if he gets decent ice time as a 3rd liner. He doesn’t have that great hands and I would say that his hockey IQ is quite average - at least offensively. But he has in my opinion quite good potential to become a really high class 3rd or 4th line grinder in the NHL. And those kind of players can be also pretty valuable in nowadays hockey.

 

[Dr Pepper]

First Game 7 hattrick since Gretzky in 1993

So he's literally the next Gretzky.

Case closed.

 

[tapi]

It was mostly some hard work and puck luck, a deflection and a couple shots into basically almost an empty net. Nevertheless well done by him and quite a way to push ones way into the line-up for the next games (uncertain if he'll stick tho)

 

[Canes]

More like the new Brock McGinn

 

[Dr Pepper]

Honestly surprised its such a short list

 

[illpucks]

Great game but could just as easily been the only game 7 goals he ever scores. Let's calm down lol

Next year he will overtake McDavid as the best player in the league

 

[Ciccarelli]

Honestly though there would be thread filled with people amazed by Joels hatrick cobsidering his background of not veing an elite scorer at any level, but wow, just butthurt guys. Is It the 'rona effect..?

 

[LT]

I made the title a bit less click-baity and more accurate. I think this accomplishment is worthy of an actual thread and some actual discussion.

 

[LT]

I love this

 

[Husqvarna]

Joel Kiviranta is a real World Champion of icehockey ... nothin' less and nothin' more than of the World series of joke sports in the U.S.A (baseball, American football).

 

[koyvoo]

 

[MacKinnunen]

I love this

 

[MrThomas]

Also he wasn't drafted.

Honestly, has this ever happened before?

Ps. Congarts Dallas

 

[Dr Pepper]

So get this.

Twelve years ago - the last time Dallas made it to the conference finals - they had a quartet of Finns helping them out:

Lehtinen
Miettinen
Jokinen
Hagman

Some called them "Helsinki South".

Today?

Heiskanen
Lindell
Hintz
Kiviranta

It is officially back again!

 

[Kcb12345]

It was mostly some hard work and puck luck, a deflection and a couple shots into basically almost an empty net. Nevertheless well done by him and quite a way to push ones way into the line-up for the next games (uncertain if he'll stick tho)

Don't really get this take at all.
I mean his goals were pretty standard NHL goals that he actually scored himself. Not really any lucky bounces unless you're counting the rebound that came to him, which he sniped home from a tight angle. Not like his shots were bouncing off bodies or tap ins by any means

 

[Troy McClure]

So get this.

Twelve years ago - the last time Dallas made it to the conference finals - they had a quartet of Finns helping them out:

Lehtinen
Miettinen
Jokinen
Hagman

Some called them "Helsinki South".

Today?

Heiskanen
Lindell
Hintz
Kiviranta

It is officially back again!

And it could have been five if Honka was any good.

 

[Dr Pepper]

And it could have been five if Honka was any good.

Oh yeah. Lol.

He is missing out.

 

[LT]

And it could have been five if Honka was any good.

If his agent wasn't brain dead he could maybe be playing now with how depleted our bottom pairing is.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

first ballot HoFer