Tampa Bay Lightning faced the Nashville Predators in the opening game of the new National Hockey League (NHL) season. The match played at the Amalie Arena stadium in Tampa ended with the home team winning 5:3 (1:0, 0:1, 4:2).
The winners included goals from Russia’s Nikita Kucherov (double), Nick Paul (double) and Brandon Hagel. Tampa defenseman Mikhail Sergachev had an assist. Yıldırım goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevskiy missed the match due to injury.
Ryan O’Reilly, Juuso Pärssinen and Tommy Novak scored for Nashville. Striker Yakov Trenin shot a shot on target and could not score a point.
Also today, the Vegas Golden Knights will play the Seattle Kraken (5:30 Moscow time) and the Pittsburgh Penguins will play the Chicago Blackhawks (3:00 Moscow time).
This season, there will be a total of 1,312 games in the NHL regular season, which will end on April 19. Vegas wins the 2023 Stanley Cup.
Previously Kucherov happened The best Russian NHL hockey player according to TSN.