Athletistic/Hockey. On the night of November 8, several NHL regular season games ended. Tampa, Rangers and Minnesota achieved victories with the help of Russian hockey players. Nikita Kucherov, Artemy Panarin and Kirill Kaprizov shone on the ice.
“Tampa” defeated “Montreal” on the road in a regular season NHL match with a score of 5:3.
For the Lightning, Nikita Kucherov scored 2 (1+1) points, Nick Paul scored a double, and Alex Barre-Boulet and Mikael Issimont also scored a puck. Nick Suzuki and Christian Dvorak scored for the Canadians.
After this match, Tampa is in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with 16 points, Montreal is in 11th place with 12 points.
NHL. Regular season
“Montreal” – “Tampa Bay” – 3:5 (0:4, 0:0, 3:1)
Goals: Kucherov – 10 (Hagel, Point), 0:22 – 0:1. Paul – 6 (Stamkos, Hedman), 7:15 – 0:2. Barre-Boulet – 4 (bol., Hagel, Sergachev), 9:09 – 0:3. Eissimont – 4 (Hedman, Cernak), 1:50 p.m. – 0:4. Suzuki – 4 (bol., Caufield, Monaghan), 46:50 – 1:4. Pezzetta – 1 (Evans, Goulet), 47:24 – 2:4. Paul – 7 (bol., Kucherov, Stamkos), 57:40 – 2:5. Dvořak – 1 (Harris, Barron), 59:41 – 3:5.
The Rangers defeated Detroit at home in the NHL regular season match – 5:3.
Artemiy Panarin scored 2 (1+1) points. The Russian’s goal streak since the start of the season is 12 matches, he is among the top 3 scorers in the NHL – 20 (7+13) points.
For the Red Wings, forward Klim Kostin scored the puck, for whom this goal was his first game for the club.
The Rangers have 19 points and are in second place in the East. Detroit has 15 points and 6th place.
NHL. Regular season
“Rangers” – “Detroit” – 5: 3 (1: 0, 4: 0, 0: 3)
Goals: Trocheck – 2 (Gustafsson), 1:40 – 1:0. Kreider – 9 (bol., Gustafsson, Panarin), 27:31 – 2:0. Trocheck – 3 (bol., Zibanejad, Kreider), 28:15 – 3:0. Panarin – 7 (Lafrenière), 31:21 – 4:0. Feather – 3 (Jones, Schneider), 34:10 – 5:0. Rasmussen – 2 (Chiaro, Petrie), 47:55 – 5:1. Kostin – 1 (Chiaro, Fischer), 48:15 – 5:2. Copp – 5 (Compher, Husso), 53:49 – 5:3.
“Minnesota” defeated the “Islanders” with a score of 4:2 in a match of the NHL regular season.
For the Wild, Kirill Kaprizov scored the winning goal and Islanders goaltender Semyon Varlamov stopped 27 shots.
After this game, Minnesota is in 10th place in the Western Conference with 12 points, and the Islanders are in ninth place in the East with 13 points.
NHL. Regular season
Islanders – Minnesota – 2:4 (1:1, 1:1, 0:2)
Goals: Maroons – 2 (Eriksson Ek, Middleton), 0:19 – 0:1. Dobson – 5 (Cizikas, Clutterbuck), 11:00 – 1:1. Wallstrom – 1 (bol., Engvall, Aho), 28:34 – 2:1. Lettieri – 1 (Boldy, Faber), 32:03 – 2:2. Kaprizov – 4 (bol., Zuccarello, Johansson), 46:50 – 2:3. Eriksson Ek – 7 (Brown), 47:32 – 2:4.
“Calgary” defeated “Nashville” with a score of 4:2 in the NHL regular season match.
The Flames responded to goals from Mike McCarron and Kiefer Sherwood with sharp shots from Dillon Dube, Noah Hanifin, Blake Coleman and Nazem Kadri, and defenseman Ivan Provorov scored on an assist.
After this match, Calgary is in 13th place in the Western Conference with 9 points, Nashville is in 12th place with 10 points.
NHL. Regular season
“Calgary” – “Nashville” – 4:2 (0:2, 1:0, 3:0)
Goals: McCarron – 1 (Foudy, Del Gaizo), 4:35 – 0:1. Sherwood – 3 (Evangelista, Novak), 14:34 – 0:2. Dubé – 2 (Zadorov, Desimon), 35:06 – 1:2. Hanifin – 2 (Sharangovich, Tanev), 44:45 – 2:2. Coleman – 3 (Kadri, Desimon), 46:24 – 3:2. Kadri – 2 (pv, Sharangovich, Zari), 58:21 – 4:2.
It is worth noting that Tampa forward Nikita Kucherov has become the leader of the NHL scoring race this season. The forward scored 2 (1+1) points in the regular season match against Montreal (5:3).
The Russian has 22 (10+12) points in 13 matches.
Vancouver forward Elias Pettersson ranks second with 21 (6+15) points. The third place is occupied by three hockey players – Artemiy Panarin (Rangers) with 20 (7+13) points, Jack Hughes (New Jersey) with 20 (5+15) points and Quinn Hughes (Vancouver) with 20 (5+ 15) points.
Andrey Andreev, Sport.Ru
Source: Sport

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