Tampa Bay Lightning Defeat Despite Nikita Kucherov’s 100th Point of the Season

Moscow, March 20 – Hockey players “Tampa Bay Lightning” lost to the “New Jersey Devils” in the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL).

The meeting, which took place in Tampa, ended with a score of 5: 2 (0: 1, 3: 1, 2: 0) in favor of the guests. As part of the winners, Jesper Pratt scored hat-tricks (27, 30 and 60), and Nico Hescher (33) and Nolan Foote (50) scored another puck. Tampa scored the Russian top scorer Nikita Kocherov (4) and Alex Killorn (27).

Kucherov, recognized as the third star of the match, thanks to a goal, reached the 100-point mark in the regular season 2022/23. For the Russian, this tournament was the third in his NHL career with 100 or more points. Kucherov is just the sixth player in the current league to play three or more seasons with 100 points. Previously, Conor McDavid and Sidney Crosby (each had six seasons), Leon Drisaitl and Alexander Ovechkin (four seasons each), and Evgeny Malkin (3) have all made it.

Defender of the Russian “Tampa” Mikhail Sergachev fired one shot at the goal, stopped two powerful moves and blocked two shots. Lightning goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevsky saved 34 of 38 shots.