National Hockey League (NHL) Tampa Bay Lightning defender Mikhail Sergachev provided two assists in a regular season game against the New Jersey Devils.
as informed Quantity HockeySergachev became the ninth hockey player from Russia to score 50 or more points in a season in the NHL.
Before that, Sergey Gonchar, Sergey Zubov, Oleg Tverdovsky, Andrey Markov, Vladimir Malakhov, Dmitry Mironov, Alexei Zhitnik and Igor Kravchuk left a similar mark in the NHL.
The last Russian defender to score 50 or more points in the NHL was Andrey Markov in the 2014/15 season. He scored ten goals and provided 40 assists for the Montreal Canadiens.
Earlier it was reported that Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” head coach Igor Larionov. He travelled a spade played with SKA in the subway.