Tampa Bay Lightning’s Russian forward Nikita Kucherov had two assists and scored a goal in a National Hockey League (NHL) regular season game against the Arizona Coyotes on January 26. Third period continues.
Thus, he scored 812 points in his NHL career, passing Sergei Gonchar, who had 811 points, in the list of the best Russian scorers in NHL history. Now Kucherov takes ninth place in this indicator. In eighth place is Vyacheslav Kozlov, who collected 853 points throughout his NHL career. Topping the list of the best Russian NHL scorers is Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin.
Kucherov played in 48 games in the NHL this season and scored 32 goals and made 51 assists in these games.
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).
Formerly a player for Spartak it was said ready for performances abroad.