SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 17: San Jose Sharks’ Timo Meier (28) celebrates his aim, his fourth of the sport, in opposition to the Los Angeles Kings within the second interval on the SAP Middle in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Space Information Group)
SAN JOSE – Timo Meier set a number of crew data together with his five-goal outburst Monday afternoon within the Sharks’ 6-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings at SAP Middle.
Meier grew to become the primary Sharks participant to attain 5 objectives in a single recreation and his three first interval objectives, coming in 19:09, set one other crew document for the quickest hat trick from the beginning of a recreation. He then scored his fourth and fifth objectives within the second interval to stake the Sharks to a 6-1 lead.
Meier’s first 4 objectives got here in 18:22 of precise recreation time, setting one other Sharks particular person document. The previous document of 4 objectives in 22:46 was set by Tomas Hertl on Oct. 8, 2013 in opposition to the New York Rangers in what was his third NHL recreation.
“That’s now a very long time in the past,” Hertl stated Monday. “As we speak was Timo’s night time.”
Right here’s what else the Sharks had been saying about Meier’s record-setting recreation. 
BOB BOUGHNER
“The primary interval he had and coming again and getting one other two within the second, it was good to see. We’ve talked in regards to the season he’s had, being voted as our all-star, which was a lot deserved. We talked about all his work away from the puck. With one in all these video games at present, I consider when you put in sufficient good, arduous work, it pays you again somewhat bit. Timo bought paid again and our crew, I feel, bought paid again somewhat bit.”
“He’s naturally gifted. He’s larger, stronger, sooner than most guys within the league. I don’t need to take credit score different than simply attempting to make him a 200-foot participant. Timo deserves all of the credit score. He’s put in numerous arduous work and he’s bought to decide to that and he did.”
TOMAS HERTL
“I feel he labored actually arduous on his recreation. The video games earlier than he was all the time up and down. He was skating and on the puck one night time and in any other case, he was nowhere. This 12 months, he’s simply come and he’s there for us each night time, and that’s what the perfect gamers within the NHL do. If you wish to be the perfect and assist the crew win, you must be there most nights, you may’t be one night time off and one night time on. This 12 months he's there most nights and he’s serving to us win numerous video games for us.” 
ERIK KARLSSON
“It’s all the time good to see guys have these accomplishments like that. It raises the spirit of the entire crew. I feel it was an enormous recreation for us.”
“He’s an enormous boy and he skates properly and I feel that he’s beginning to use that to his benefit somewhat bit extra, and it’s arduous to try this. He’s beginning to understand that he can put numerous guys on his again and create numerous issues for himself together with his measurement and his velocity, and the puck retains entering into.”
“He finds open areas on the market and he’s been doing that on a constant stage this 12 months, which I feel has include the expertise that he’s had and the issues that he’s gone by way of. I feel all of us knew that he had nice potential, however this 12 months he’s positively matured right into a means the place he thinks that on a nightly foundation and despite the fact that it doesn’t all the time work out on the scoresheet, he nonetheless retains going. In the event you maintain doing that, you’re going to have video games like this.” 
TIMO MEIER
Did you need six? “I all the time need to rating objectives. Yeah, you don’t actually suppose an excessive amount of about that. The principle focus is to win the sport. Clearly, after the sport, you understand that stuff. I do know Mike Ricci had 5 objectives (with Quebec). He informed me that. However I feel total, an amazing crew effort. My linemates made some very nice passes on the facility play, too.”
On the sport’s move: “Particularly within the first two durations, we didn’t actually create a lot within the offensive zone and we had been spending more often than not defending, to be sincere, however our probabilities had been entering into. In previous video games after we had been creating numerous probabilities, we simply couldn’t discover the again of the web. So at present, it was type of somewhat bit the alternative. It’s good to see them go in.”
To listen to the gang chant his title: “It’s particular. It’s nearly, you may’t describe it. Yeah, very particular, goosebump feeling. Our followers have been nice. So it’s simply actually, actually cool.”
Confidence proper now: “Once you really feel like issues are going your means within the recreation, you then positively really feel extra comfy with the puck and perhaps strive a shot from the spot the place you wouldn’t shoot in one other recreation. However yeah, only a very nice play by Hertl there, a sauce over on that final aim, and like I stated, some very nice setups by our guys.
Did you ever suppose a recreation like this was potential? “No.” 
