The All-Star game of National Hockey League (NHL) players will be played in Toronto on the night of February 2-3. Russian Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov also agreed.
According to the results of six competitions, the Russian took last place, 12th place and could not advance to the next stage. Additionally, Quinn Hughes (Vancouver Canucks), Leon Draisaitl (Edmonton Oilers) and David Pastrnak (Boston Bruins) failed to advance to the next round.
Kucherov played in 49 games in the NHL this season and scored 32 goals and made 53 assists in these games.
It is worth noting that Kucherov alone leads the scoring race this season. Nathan MacKinnon is second (31+53). David Pastrnak (33+39) completes the top three in this indicator. New York Rangers’ Russian forward Artemy Panarin is in sixth place. He has 66 points (30+36).
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).
Previously former SKA player statedThat Ovechkin would come to Russia already full of money and fame.