Athletistic / Hockey. On the night of April 16, the Tampa Bay Lightning lost to the Buffalo Sabers in an NHL regular season home game with a score of 2:4. Forward Nikita Kucherov had another impact for the Lightning.
Last night, Kucherov scored an assist. It was his 99th in the current NHL regular season. This helped Kucherov set the NHL record for assists in a single season for a 30-year-old player. In second place for this indicator is Adam Oates (97) and in third place is Mario Lemieux (92).
This season in the NHL, Nikita Kucherov scored 142 points in the “goal + assist” system in 80 matches – he scored 43 goals and became the author of 99 assists. The Russian leads the scoring race this season in the NHL.
Source: Sport
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