Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Anaheim Ducks in a National Hockey League (NHL) regular season game.
The match, which took place at Amalie Arena in Tampa, ended with the Lightning winning 5:1.
Victor Hadman, Steven Stamkos, Calvin de Haan and Brandon Hagel scored the goals in the winning team. Frank Vatrano scored the lone goal for the Ducks.
Tampa’s Russian forward Nikita Kucherov scored three points in this game and made three assists for Hadman and Stamkos. Thanks to these points, he became the tenth Russian hockey player to achieve this goal in the NHL, scoring 799, 800 and 801 points in his career.
Kucherov finished fourth (30+82) in the NHL regular season last season, behind David Pastrnak (113 points), Leon Draisaitl (129 points) and Connor McDavid (153 points).
Tampa Bay earned its third straight win. Anaheim, one of the foreign players of the NHL, suffered its seventh defeat in the last eight games of the regular season.
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