Athletistic/Hockey. The Tampa Bay Lightning played an excellent home match of the NHL regular season, defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins with a score of 3: 1. Forward Nikita Kucherov made a significant contribution to the success of his team.
The 30-year-old Russian scored two points for his performance last night: he scored a goal and provided an assist. For the 216th time in his career, Kucherov managed to score more than one point in an NHL game. According to this indicator, Nikita took 130th place in the history of the league, ahead of Ken Hodge (215) and tied with five hockey players at once – his legendary compatriot Pavel Bure, the German forward of the Oilers from Edmonton Leon Draisaitl, as well as NHL legends Wilf Paiement, Brad Park and Larry Robinson.
Nikita Kucherova played 26 games in the current regular NHL championship and scored 44 (17+27) points using the goal+pass system.
Source: Sport
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