Marion Gaborik Has Five-Goal Night!
December 21, 2007 by Jeanne Dupuis
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I could not even believe it but it’s true – Marian Gaborik scored five goals last night when his team the Minnesota Wild faced the New York Rangers. No other Wild player has ever accomplished this feat and he is the first in nearly 11 years to pull this off in the entire league (the last time was when Sergei Federov did it for the Detroit Red Wings on December 26, 1996 against the Washington Capitals)! Even better, he recorded an assist. Here are some quotes about the crazy game:
"One time I got five goals when I was playing back home for a pro club back there, but this is just totally different," Gaborik said. "You score five goals in the NHL it’s just a totally different experience. To reach it here with these guys in front of our fans is just unbelievable."
“We ran into a world-class player having the game of his life,” said Rangers forward Brendan Shanahan, a 600-goal scorer. "But I don’t think the score reflects how we played the game."
"It was pretty amazing," Wild captain Mark Parrish said. "He was banking ‘em in out of the air, scoring on breakaways, skating through everybody with it, making highlight-film goals. My God, he was doing it every which-way tonight. When a guy like that’s feeling it, it gets pretty scary for the other team."
Congrats, Gaborik! How weird that these milestones occurred almost 11 years apart to the day…
Anyway, in honor of this, I’m putting up one of my favorite hits of all time:
Dominic Hasek vs. Marian Gaborik
