Tampa Bay Lightning: Favorite Martin St. Louis Moments

Chase Kimball – Bolts By The Bay Contributor

In my opinion, Martin St. Louis was one of the most fun players to watch in the history of the NHL. His was an incredible shooter, scrappy, and had an uncanny ability to make something from absolutely nothing.  

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This is exactly what he did on January the 18th of 2014 against the San Jose Sharks.  While the Lightning ultimately lost this game, St. Louis would have a night to remember.  

Scoring a hat trick is an impressive enough feat as it is.  Three goals in sixty minutes of play are rare and extremely uncommon.

When the final buzzer sounded, St. Louis would have not three, but four goals of the night.  What’s more impressive than this already impressive feat is that he scored his hat trick in the first period alone.  

St. Louis’s goal scoring ability was really on display that night.  Apart from finding the back of the net four times in the first 22 minutes of the game, his second goal came from a behind-the-back backhand shot while skating.  I’m still not quite sure how he was able to pull it off.  

Surprisingly, this was just one of three of St. Louis’s first-period hat tricks.  His fastest was 1:17 faster against the Carolina Hurricanes.  Impressive as that may be, his four-goal night still takes the cake as my favorite Martin St. Louis moment.  

In this game, he showed exactly why his jersey will be lifted into the rafters of Amalie Arena.  Few players have had or will ever have the goal scoring talent of Martin St. Louis and he is undoubtedly one of, if not the most, talented goal scorer to ever wear a Lightning sweater.