Boston allowed 3.30 goals per game, ranking 26th in the NHL. The season prior, its defense was one of the League’s best, ...

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 ...

Becoming an NHL franchise’s active leader in goal-scoring often takes a ton of talent, consistency, loyalty and longevity.

Kucherov scored 37 goals with 84 assists for 121 points, along with an impressive +22 rating. Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov has established himself as one of the NHL’s best players ...

Tampa Bay Lightning forward Mitchell Chaffee is coming off a solid 2024-25 season, setting career highs in NHL games played (66), goals (12), assists (6), and points (18).

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 ...

Kucherov previously won the Hart Trophy in 2019, when he posted 41 goals, 128 points, and a plus-24 rating in 82 games. It will now be interesting to see if he wins his second career Hart from here.

Kucherov likely would be the first to say the past three playoff series haven’t been his best. He hasn’t scored a goal in the 15 postseason games dating to Game 1 of the Lightning’s first ...

At the end of the season, we got a taste of Ivan Demidov with the Canadiens. The talented young Russian forward only played a handful of games in Montreal, but already we could see the talent coming ...

The 31-year-old Hellebuyck led the NHL in goalie wins (47), goals-against average (2.01) and shutouts (eight) this season, and his .925 save percentage was second only to Toronto Maple Leafs ...

Kucherov tied with MacKinnon for the league lead in assists with 84, netted 37 goals and set a career high with nine game-winning goals.