Posts About "Nikita Kucherov"
10 Most Important Goals in Lightning History
August 12th, 2019 There have been some amazing goals scored in NHL history, and a select few have come from players on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Whether it was a record-setting goal, a career milestone or just an amazing play, there's no shortage of great goals by Bolts players. But, some are more important than others, and here is a list of the top 10...
NHL Awards Voting (and Voters) Needs Reevaluation
June 20th, 2019 The NHL Awards were last night, and while most of the awards handed out were well-deserved and, for some, long overdue, there were a shocking number of voting results that were either questionable, irrational, or downright wrong. Let's look at some of the peculiarities in the voting results. Ryan O'Reilly of the St. Louis Blues poses...
Lightning: 5 Best Yzerman-Era Draft Picks
June 19th, 2019 Throughout his tenure with the Tampa Bay Lightning, general manager Steve Yzerman found great success at the draft. Even if he struggled at times with first-round picks, his team of scouts consistently pulled top-talent out of all rounds of the draft. With 2019 representing the first draft for the Lightning without Yzerman in close...
The 2019 THW Year-End Awards
June 2nd, 2019 Welcome to the eighth annual installment of our Year-End Awards here at The Hockey Writers. At the conclusion of every National Hockey League regular season, we ask all active writers to submit their picks for the following categories. Voting was conducted by e-mail between April 9 and May 31, while voters were instructed to provide...
Nikita Kucherov Suspended One Game
April 13th, 2019 The NHL’s Department of Player Safety (DoPS) announced on Saturday that Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov has been suspended for one game for boarding Columbus Blue Jackets defenceman Markus Nutivaara during Game 2 of their first-round series in Tampa on Friday...
Star Power - Lightning's Nikita Kucherov
April 5th, 2019 The lesson Nikita Kucherov learned from childhood coach Gennady Kurdin is on display every time he laces up his skates and steps on to the ice. Kurdin taught Kucherov the very common Russian hockey philosophy that the sport is about sacrificing for you...
