The United States remains undefeated in men’s hockey, rolling past Germany for a 5-1 victory on Sunday at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and now they look to continue training ahead of Wednesday’s quarterfinals game.
Across the team’s first three games, they have scored 16 goals, with opponents combining for 5 goals against them. With Latvia, Denmark and Germany now in the rear-view, the team began preparations for the quarterfinals, where they will face Sweden or get a potential Latvia rematch.
The team has seen an abundance of individual scoring, but has anyone come close to a hat-trick? The feat of scoring three goals in a game is not a rarity in the National Hockey League, where 64 hat tricks have been recorded thus far in the 2025-26 season. Players even set a record in January 2026, with 31 hat tricks recorded, the most ever in a single month in the NHL.
What about when it comes to Olympic hockey? Focusing on Team USA, the last hat trick took place in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, when Sean Farrell scored a hat trick against China, the first in eight years for the team.
No American scored a hat trick in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, and in the 2014 Sochi Games, Phil Kessel recorded a hat trick for America against Slovenia.
Auston Matthews, who plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs, scored two goals in Sunday’s matchup against Germany, but no hat trick (he did pick up a third point on an assist). After outshooting Germany 37-24, its no surprise that the team’s offense is firing on all cylinders.
In the other games thus far, no other player besides Matthews has scored more than once.
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