Have yourself a night, Tage Thompson!
On Wednesday, the Buffalo Sabres headed to Ohio to face off against the Columbus Blue Jackets in an Eastern Conference matchup. Unfortunately for the Blue Jackets, it got late early after the Sabres posted six goals in the first period, with four coming in the opening 10 minutes of the period.
The leader of the charge was none other than Thompson, who posted four of the Sabres six first period goals and had five overall goals by the end of the second period. Yes, Thompson had a whole hat trick — and then some — in 40 minutes of hockey! It was just as ridiculous and as awesome as it sounds.
🙌 THE YEAR OF TAGE 🙌
Tage Thompson has his second @enterprise hat trick of the season as part of a FIVE-POINT first period. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/nD87wSsjVf
— NHL (@NHL) December 8, 2022
TAGE THOMPSON NOW HAS FOUR… SOMEONE STOP THIS MAN 🤯🤯🤯 pic.twitter.com/73uwg8z7eQ
— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) December 8, 2022
Tage Thompson Goals Tracker: FIVE NOW 🚨 pic.twitter.com/TcJV7Qbtf8
— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) December 8, 2022
Something like what Thompson did just doesn’t happen in hockey often. If you were wondering, the NHL record for goals by one player in a single game is seven, set way back in 1920. No one’s even scored six since 1968!
NHL fans were completely in awe of Thompson’s incredible, historic game for the Sabres.
My goodness Tage Thompson.
— Sammi Silber (@sammisilber) December 8, 2022
TAGE THOMPSON CANNOT BE STOPPED
— Jesse Pollock (@jpolly22) December 8, 2022
lol the Flyers and Capitals are playing a whole hockey game here and literally no one in the hockey world cares because of Tage Thompson
— Charlie O'Connor (@charlieo_conn) December 8, 2022
When somebody other than Tage Thompson scores a goal in this game pic.twitter.com/yxiri51JLT
— DJ Bean (@DJ_Bean) December 8, 2022
Tage Thompson be like
a little bit of wrist shot in my life
a little bit of slapshot by my side
a little bit of snap shot’s all i need
a little bit of backhand’s what i see
a little bit of bar down in the sun
a little bit of top shelf all night long— juliana nikac (@juliananikac) December 8, 2022
Tage Thompson is better than Jack Eichel.
— Joe DiBiase (@SneakyJoeSports) December 8, 2022
Tage Thompson has more goals tonight than 73% of players in the league have goals this season.
— Mike Kelly (@MikeKellyNHL) December 8, 2022
Tage Thompson is a freak https://t.co/mESZLBxcTY
— Scott McLaughlin (@smclaughlin9) December 8, 2022
i’m sorry
tage thompson did what now 🥵— dom 🕰️ (@domluszczyszyn) December 8, 2022
I, for one, welcome our new Tage Thompson overlord.
— Marc Dumont (@MarcPDumont) December 8, 2022
i think Tage Thompson might legitimately have the most baffling non-goalie development arc of any NHL player i've ever heard of. just put it together and turned into a weird big demon scorer
— Acting the Fulemin (@ATFulemin) December 8, 2022
We need to go make Tage Thompson a 99 Overall immediately.
— EA SPORTS NHL (@EASPORTSNHL) December 8, 2022
