Triple world hockey champion Alexei Tereshchenko during a conversation with , he expressed hope that the Russian striker New York Rangers Artemy Panarin this season he will perform in the playoffs as successfully as he did in the NHL regular season.
On Tuesday, Panarin scored 2 (1+1) points in the match against Detroit (5:3). The Russian’s scoring streak since the beginning of the season is already 12 games, and the hockey player now has 20 points (7+13). He is the second longest-tenured player in club history, behind Canadian Rod Gilbert, who scored 23 points in 14 games during the 1972-73 season.
— Panarin’s performance is not surprising. Generally, this still happens pretty regularly during the regular season. So it’s all good, like in previous years, it’s good that Panarin and Kucherov are among the top scorers of the NHL season. After all, they represent our country. They are high level players who have demonstrated their high level for many years. Of course, I would like everything to turn out like this for Artemy in the playoffs. But the playoffs are a slightly different game. And the point here is not even in personal statistics, but in the overall performance of the team. The regular season is the regular season, everyone scores points, and in the playoffs there is already a relegation battle for the Stanley Cup. I would like our players to reach the coveted Cup, which unfortunately few people achieve. We will be sick, we will worry,” Tereshchenko told .
Panarin became the eighth player in the club’s history to need 12 matches from the start of the championship to score 20 points. The last time such an indicator was achieved by the Czech Jaromir Jagr was in the 2006/07 season.
The race for goal scorers in the NHL is now led by another Russian hockey player – Tampa forward Nikita Kucherov. In the current championship, the attacker has 22 (10+12) points. Panarin is fifth on the list.
Source : MatchTV
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