Gaborik had a hat trick, including the winner 27 seconds into the extra period after he took the puck from Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference, outraced Ference and Johnny Boychuk 130 feet down the ice and swatted his rebound out of midair past Boston goalie Tuukka Rask.
There seemed to be a different hero each time as Mark Verso notched a hat trick, including the game winner, against Santa Barbara and his brother Eric Verso scored two goals and the late winner against Thousand Oaks.
The last time Quenneville put Kane and Toews together, in Game 5 of the conference finals against the Los Angeles Kings, Kane scored a hat trick, including the series winner in overtime, and Toews had two assists.
Providence also won a dramatic fourth game on May 5. Trailing 4 3 in the third period, the Bruins stunned Hershey by scoring two goals in the final four minutes, including Carter Camper completing a hat trick with his game-winner with 64 seconds left in the game.
But first they would have to deal with the Sabres at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, in the second game of a home-and-home series in which the Devils, behind a hat trick by Jason Arnott, were 4-1 winners on Sunday.
On Friday night, Lindros, who had missed four consecutive games with a strained left elbow, had a hat trick, which included the game-winner in overtime, when the Rangers defeated the Panthers, 5-4.
Wing Simon Zebo scored a hat trick as Munster squeezed out Leinster, winner for the past two years and three of the last four, on the number of tries scored in its six pool matches.
Nicklas Backstrom's hat trick, including the winner 31 seconds into overtime, offset a hat trick from Andrei Kostitsyn of the Canadiens.
That made him the first NHL player to record both an overtime game-winning goal and a hat trick in the same playoff game since Patrick Kane in 2013, and the third Capitals player to complete a postseason hat trick with an overtime winner (joining Nicklas Backstrom and Dino Ciccarelli).
Ronaldo scores a hat trick?
