SUNRISE, Fla. _ Noel Acciari did it again.
Two games. Two hat tricks.
This time, though, the 28-year-old needed less than four minutes in the middle of the second period Friday to pull off the three-goal feat as the Florida Panthers cruised to a 7-4 win over the Dallas Stars on Friday.
The 3:59 span from the first goal to the third is the shortest in Panthers history.
Acciari is just the second player in franchise history with back-to-back hat tricks, joining Pavel Bure (Feb. 10 and Feb. 14, 2001).
As a reminder: Acciari never had a multi-goal game in the first 209 games of his NHL career before putting three in the back of the net against the Ottawa Senators on Monday and then repeating the feat on Friday to close out the Panthers' franchise-long nine-game homestand.
And this one came against a Stars team that came into Friday allowing an NHL-low 2.31 goals per game.
Acciari's linemates, Vincent Trocheck and Huberdeau, assisted on each of his first two goals, a tip-in just in front of the net and a wrist shot from the left circle within 32 seconds of each other (12:34 and 12:02 left in the second period).
He clinched the hat trick on a penalty shot with 8:35 left in the period. It capped a five-goal second period for the Panthers (17-12-5), marking the second consecutive game Florida has recorded a handful of goals in the middle period.
Huberdeau, Anton Stralman, Trocheck and Colton Sceviour posted Florida's first four goals before Acciari went on his scoring flurry.
Huberdeau recorded his second consecutive four-point game (one point, three assists) to give him 404 career points, 15 shy of tying Olli Jokinen's franchise record. He had a career-best four assists on Monday. Aleksander Barkov had two assists.
The Panthers outscored Ottawa and Dallas, 13-5, in their final two games after scoring just four total goals in losses to the Tampa Bay Lightning (2-1), New York Islanders (3-1) and Boston Bruins (4-2).
Denis Gurianov opened scoring for the Stars (20-13-4) in the first period, Tyler Seguin had goals in the second and third, and Jamie Benn cut Dallas' deficit to three goals with about seven minutes left in regulation.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 27 of 31 shots in the win and posted a .943 save percentage in his seven starts over the homestand (230 for 244). Friday was the only time in seven starts over the homestand that Bobrovsky gave up more than three goals in a game.
The Panthers went 5-4-0 in the nine-game homestand.
