Russian Nikita Kucherov is in the top 10 best active NHL players
Russian forward Nikita Kucherov is in the top 10 best active players in the National Hockey League (NHL). The rating was published on the NHL Network page on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“Nikita Kucherov takes eighth place in the ranking. He scored 100 points in a season for the third time in his career. This is the only Tampa Bay Lightning player to have more than one such season,” the report said.
Earlier, the NHL published the names of athletes who took places in the top 20 ratings. New York Rangers goalkeeper Igor Shesterkin took 18th place on the list, Minnesota Wild forward Kirill Kaprizov was 17th, and Andrei Vasilevsky, who defended the Tampa goal, was on 14th line.
Kucherov has been playing for Tampa since 2013. He and the team won the Stanley Cup in 2020 and 2021. He has reached the 100-point mark in a season three times in his career: 2023, 2019 and 2018.
Source: Lenta
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