Matthew Tkachuk Assisted on All Three of Brady’s Hat Trick Goals. No Brothers Had Ever Done That.

Brady Tkachuk scored three straight goals in the second period Tuesday night in Florida. His brother set up every one of them. In the entire history of the NHL, that had never happened before.

The Panthers beat Columbus 7-3, and the box score belongs to two brothers who had done almost nothing together until the puck dropped. Brady finished with three goals and an assist. Matthew finished with five assists and no goals, a career high for him in a single game and a Panthers franchise record for assists in one period.

Per NHL PR, this is the first time in league history that a player’s brother has assisted on all three goals of a natural hat trick. Brady is the ninth player ever to have a brother set up three goals of a hat trick, and the first since Daniel Sedin in 2015, when Henrik supplied the helpers. Their nine combined points also make the Tkachuks the first brother-teammate pair since the Sedins that year to put up that many in one game.

Eight minutes and three seconds

The sequence came fast. Brady scored at 2:27 of the second period, again at 6:00, and finished it around the 10:30 mark, all inside 8:03. That is the third-fastest hat trick in Panthers franchise history. The last two came on the power play.

Columbus had actually led this game. Kent Johnson put the Blue Jackets up 1-0 before the middle period turned the night into a rout.

Brady is also the eighth player in Panthers history to record a natural hat trick, and the first since Matthew did it in 2024. The family keeps filling in the same lines of the same record book.

Six games of nothing, then everything

Here is what makes Tuesday land harder than a normal four-point night. Before this game, Brady had one assist in his first six games as Matthew’s teammate in Florida. One. The whole premise of putting these two on the same roster was that the production would arrive, and for six games it did not.

“Felt like I wasn’t doing my job, and wasn’t good enough, but knew eventually it was going to come,” Brady told ESPN afterward.

That is the right read on it. Six games is a tiny sample, and anyone who spent the first two weeks of October deciding the Tkachuk pairing was broken was working off almost nothing.

Florida needed this more than usual, too. The Panthers are 3-2-2 and had lost four of five coming in, with Aleksander Barkov and Brad Marchand both out at least a month. When a team loses that much of its top six, the forwards who remain have to cover more ground. Tuesday was the first night this season the Tkachuks did.

What it actually proves

One game does not repair a roster missing two of its best forwards. Florida will still be short-handed in November, and seven goals against Columbus says little about the games that decide a division in March.

But the bet Florida made was specific: that Brady and Matthew would eventually find each other on the ice without having to think about it. Three goals in eight minutes, every one of them set up by the same player, is what that looks like when it clicks.

The record book will say no brothers had ever done this before. The more useful fact for the Panthers is that it took six quiet games, and then it happened anyway.