Kucherov, Panarin and Tarasenko did not reach the final of the competition for the accuracy of the throw

Moscow, February 4 – Russian National Hockey League (NHL) forwards Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues Nikita Kucherov, Artemy Panarin and Vladimir Tarasenko, respectively, failed to win the NHL All-Star Game shooting competition.

As part of the competition, participants had to achieve four speed targets.

Kucherov and Tarasenko failed to overcome the preliminary round. The Tampa striker coped with the task in 18.147 seconds, and the Blues striker in 25.062.

Artemy Panarin was eliminated in the semi-finals by New York Islanders forward Brock Nelson, who won the competition by defeating Nazim Kadri in the final.