Kucherov is the best sniper of the NHL season right now! He scored a rare winning goal against Las Vegas
October 18, 2024, 08:20 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
In total, Nikita has a double and Tampa passes the regular season without defeat.
The match between the recent winners of the Stanley Cup promised to be exciting: Tampa and Vegas had a great start to the new NHL season. And the first half at the Amalie Arena turned out to be a delight to the eye.
In 20 minutes, the “lightning” and the “knights” exchanged two goals, and Russian hockey players distinguished themselves on both teams. In the 16th minute, Pavel Dorofeev hit Andrei Vasilevsky with a smart shot on the power play.
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And 13 seconds before the break, Nikita Kucherov managed to tie the score, converting an excellent pass from Jake Guentzel into a goal.
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Interestingly, the Russian leader of the Lightning became the first Tampa hockey player in the 21st century to score at least five goals in three opening games of the championship. At the same time, Kucherov had two more periods to repeat the absolute franchise record (six goals in the first three games), owned by Chris Kontos, and Nikita coped with this task right at the flag!
In the last minute of regulation, Kucherov entered the zone, shot under the defender, Edin Hill met the threat, putting the puck in the corner, but Nikita was the first to grab the rebound and sent the puck to the grid. and there he found two rebounds from the Las Vegas players and sneaked through the goal.
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Kucherov’s sixth goal of the season, Nikita now single-handedly leads the sniper rankings of the current regular season. And “Tampa” has not yet experienced defeats in the new season; The “Lightning” has three victories in regulation time in three games.
But in this match there was one more Russian goal. Today in Las Vegas, our hockey players are also in charge, and now the new leader of the Golden Knights, Ivan Barbashev, scored another goal. He himself started the attack with an interception in his own zone, then he arrived at someone else’s place, found no resistance there and sent the puck into Vasilevsky’s goal after a pass from Shea Theodore.
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This happened at the beginning of the second half, and then Vegas led the score for a long time, but at the end of regulation time Tampa turned the game around. Brandon Hagel tied it in the 58th minute, followed by Kucherov’s game-winning goal.
