American ESPN portal Not a single Russian hockey player was included in the Stanley Cup’s top 10 players in the 2022/23 season.
The best of the Russians on the list was Tampa Bay Lightning striker Nikita Kucherov, who ranked 11th in the ranking of 50 hockey players.
12th was Tampa goalkeeper Andrey Vasilevsky. New York Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin is 20th, and Minnesota Wild forward Kirill Kaprizov is 23rd.
The top player, according to ESPN, is Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers. The second is Nathan McKinnon (Colorado Avalanche), the third – Jack Hughes (New Jersey Devils).
Kucherov became his team’s top goal scorer during the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). The striker has 113 (30+83) points in 82 games. In the regular season of the 2022/23 season, he became the team’s top scorer, 18 points ahead of his closest follower, Canadian Braden Point.
Kucherov also became the team’s best assistant with 29 assists ahead of compatriot Mikhail Sergachev.
Previously, the Russian defender of the club of the National Hockey League “Tampa Bay Lightning” Mikhail Sergachev judicial in honor of the newborn son, the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.