In the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL), Edmonton Oilers hosted Tampa Bay Lightning and lost with a score of 4:6.
Steven Stamkos scored in the second minute of the match. Russian Nikita Kucherov served as one of his assistants. Six minutes later, Tyler Motte extended Tampa’s lead.
Nine minutes into the second period, the home team hit Andrei Vasilevski’s goal three times. Steven Stamkos equalized in the last period. Kucherov then put the team ahead and Stamkos scored a hat-trick. In the last minutes of the match, the teams scored mutual goals. A few seconds before the end of the match, Stamkos scored the fourth goal with a pass from Kucherov.
This NHL season, Nikita Kucherov played in 30 games with his team, recording 19 goals and 29 assists. The Russian player is the leader in the league’s best players in the goal+pass system. TJ Miller from Vancouver is in second place with 41 points (15+26). The top three was completed by Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon, who also collected 41 points (12+29). Russian Artemy Panarin is in the top 10 and ranks sixth (16+22).
Ovechkin before elongated He continues his goalless streak for 11 matches.