The Russian attackerNew York Rangers » Artemy Panarin For the first time in his career, he surpassed the 40-goal mark in a single regular season in the NHL.
On Thursday, Panarin scored a hat-trick in the away match against Boston (5:2). The Russian now has 41 goals scored in the current regular season. In the 2019/20 season, Panarin scored 32 goals, which was his most in a regular season.
Panarin also became the 13th Russian player in NHL history to surpass the 40-goal mark in a season. Previously, Alexander Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Bure, Alexander Mogilny, Evgeny Malkin, Nikita Kucherov, Alexey Yashin, Kirill Kaprizov, Sergey Fedorov, Alexander Semin, Vladimir Tarasenko and Alexey Kovalev achieved this.
This season, 32-year-old Panarin updated his personal record of goals, scored 97 (41+56) points in 70 matches and occupies fifth place in the list of top scorers of the season.
Source : MatchTV
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