Athletistic / Hockey. The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Philadelphia Flyers with a score of 6:3 in the next NHL regular season game. The main hero of the meeting was Russian striker Nikita Kucherov.

Last night, Kucherov scored a hat-trick (three goals) and an assist. Already in his 25th NHL career, Nikita managed to score at least four points in a game. It should be noted that before him, only five active players in the league managed to reach this mark: Canadians Sidney Crosby (38) and Connor McDavid (35), Russians Alexander Ovechkin (32) and Evgeni Malkin (29) , and the German Leon Draisaitl (25). ) .

This season, Nikita Kucherov scored 80 (31+49) points using the goal+pass system in 47 matches. He now leads the NHL scoring race.


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