On the night of October 20, Moscow time, Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Vancouver Canucks in a regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL). This was reported by “Sports Express”.
The match took place at the Amalie Arena stadium in Tampa and ended with a score of 4:3. Nick Paul, Mikey Eissimont and Russian Nikita Kucherov (double) scored the goals for the winners. Tampa’s Russian defender Mikhail Sergachev finished the match with a -1 utility coefficient.
Brock Boeser and Tyler Myers scored for the visitors. Russian forward Andrey Kuzmenko did not show any effective action.
Tampa earned its second victory and moved into fifth place in the Eastern Conference. Vancouver sits in fifth place in the Western Conference.
On October 17, ESPN journalists and analysts compiled a ranking of the top 100 NHL players. Kucherov received the highest place among Russians – eighth.
In addition to the forward, the list includes: Kirill Kaprizov (Minnesota Wild) – 17th place, Igor Shesterkin (New York Rangers) – 28th place, Ilya Sorokin (New York Islanders) – 30th place, Artemiy Panarin (Rangers) – 32nd place . place , Alexander Ovechkin (Washington Capitals) – 37th place, Mikhail Sergachev (Tampa) – 53rd place, Andrei Vasilevski (Tampa) – 57th place, Sergei Bobrovsky (Florida Panthers) – 97th place.
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