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Devils prospect Filmon has 6 goals in WHL game
What’s twice nearly as good as a hat trick? A double hat trick.
Swift Present ahead and New Jersey Devils prospect Josh Filmon scored six objectives in a rout of Edmonton in a Western Hockey League recreation Friday.
Filmon, who was chosen by the Devils within the sixth spherical (No. 166) of the 2022 NHL Draft, began scoring and simply could not cease, main the Broncos to an 8-4 victory.
The league shared a spotlight video of all six of Filmon’s objectives on social media.
Filmon completed the uncommon feat in simply 36 minutes and 19 seconds of recreation time, scoring his sixth aim with 3:41 left within the second interval.
On the time, he was the Broncos’ solely scorer within the recreation. They led 6-1.
Filmon was stopped by Oil Kings goalie Ronin Geraghty on a breakaway late within the third interval, falling one in need of the WHL report for objectives in a recreation. The mark is shared by Brian Propp of Brandon (Jan. 25, 1977), Ray Ferraro of Brandon (Jan. 5, 1984), Mark Mackay of Moose Jaw (Dec. 19, 1984), Dennis Holland of Portland (Nov. 23, 1988) and Kimbi Daniels of Swift Present (Oct. 2, 1990).
Tyler Ennis of Drugs Hat was the last WHL player with a six-goal game, on Feb. 27, 2009.