Athletistic / Hockey. On the night of April 4, the Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Tampa Bay Lighting in an NHL regular season home game. The meeting ended with a confident victory of the American team with a score of 4:1.
Victor Hedman, Brayden Point, Nick Paul and Steven Stamkos scored goals for the Lightning. For the Leafs, the only accurate shot was made by Auston Matthews.
Tampa’s Russian forward Nikita Kucherov spent 17 minutes 24 seconds on the ice, scored three assists and finished the game with a useful rating of “+2”. Note that Kucherov, for the first time in the history of Russian hockey, scored 130 points in one season in the NHL.
Tampa goalie Andrei Vasilevsky showed an excellent game last night. The 29-year-old Russian stopped 28 of 29 shots in his possession.
Tampa has scored 91 points in 75 games and ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference standings. Toronto is fifth in the East with 95 points after 75 games. There is a high probability that these teams will start the playoffs against each other.
Source: Sport
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