The Florida Panthers face Tampa Bay Lightning at the FLA Like Arena during the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season. There is a second period. Florida is up 3-1.
In the fourth minute of the second twenty-minute period, Russian forward “Tampa” Nikita Kucherov scored his team’s first goal in the match. He was supported by Russian defender Mikhail Sergachev and forward Braden Point. This disc became the 20th for Kucherov this season. He also has 53 assists.
Carter Verhage, Sam Bennett and Matthew Tkachuk scored for Florida.
Tampa has collected 65 points and is fifth in the NHL Eastern Conference standings. Florida is in 11th place with 54 points.
Former ex-goalkeeper Dominik Hasek from Czech Republic commented The words of National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, who did not agree with the Czech former goalkeeper’s calls to remove Russian players.