What It Means:

The goals were Vrbata's seventh, eighth and ninth of the season. He had a total of six shots on goal in the game. It was Vrbata's sixth career hat trick. Brandon Prust and Henrik Sedin were the other goal scorers in the game for the Canucks.

Vrbata now has nine goals and six assists for a total of 15 points in 27 games played. We project him to maintain his current pace as we forecast him to net 17 more goals and dish out 21 more assists over the remainder of the season.