Athletistic/Hockey. Tampa Bay beat the Colorado Avalanche 6-2 at home and closed the series.

Thanks to two assists, one of the leaders of “Tampa” Nikita Kucherov has already scored 26 points in the playoffs. Moreover, this is the seventh game of the final series, where the Russian manages to score two or more points. By that metric, Kucherov bypassed Crosby and Patrick Kane, who recorded six of those games apiece.

It should be noted that Kucherov, with Tampa, made the Stanley Cup final for the third straight year.

Thanks to the victory in the third game of the final, the Lightning reduced the gap in the series – 2-1.