TAMPA — For the second straight season, Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov led the league in scoring. And for the second straight season, it wasn’t enough to win the Hart Trophy as the ...

Even if you give Kucherov a bit of a break for earning only $9.5 million per season, that’s still a lot of money you’re giving to a player who has put up a combined 111 goals in the past three ...

It’s not as if Kucherov has always struggled in postseason situations. He led the NHL in points in both the 2020 and 2021 playoffs, and had 21 goals in 43 games as far back as the 2015 and 2016 ...