Wayne Gretzky scored 50 regular-season hat tricks during his NHL career. That total remains the league record for three-or-more-goal games in the regular season.
Gretzky’s 50 hat tricks came across 1,487 regular-season games played for the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers. His scoring dominance was not limited to finishing chances: he also holds the NHL career records for regular-season assists and points, making his hat-trick total part of a much broader offensive legacy.
A hat trick means scoring at least three goals in one game. The regular-season figure is separate from Gretzky’s playoff total, which was 10 hat tricks. Adding those postseason performances gives him 60 NHL hat tricks in total, a distinction that sometimes causes quiz answers to vary.
Gretzky’s most productive seasons included 1981–82, when he scored 10 regular-season hat tricks while setting the single-season record with 92 goals. He also scored 50 goals in just 39 games that season, another famous NHL record.