Marner’s Hat Trick Lit the Fuse - Then Game 3 Got Weird

Mitch Marner’s night already had enough juice to carry a playoff debate for a week, and then the Stanley Cup Final decided to keep piling on. A record-breaking hat trick is the kind of thing that changes the temperature in a series, but the rest of Game 3 apparently had its own ideas about making history. That is the beauty and the cruelty of the Final - one player can seize the spotlight and still end up sharing it with the kind of chaos that only hockey can produce.