The team lost to New Jersey with a score of 2:5.
TASS, March 20. “New Jersey” on Monday night defeated “Tampa” with a score of 5: 2 in the away match of the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL).
New Jersey goals scored by Jesper Bratt (27, 30, 60 minutes), Niko Hishir (33), Nolan Foote (50), Tampa scored Nikita Kucherov (4) and Alex Killorn (27 ).
Kucherov for the third time in his career reached the mark of 100 points in a season, in the current regular season he has 28 goals and 72 assists. Previously, the Russian achieved this in the 2017/18 season (100 points) and the 2018/19 season (128). Among active players in terms of the number of seasons with 100+ points, Kucherov is inferior to compatriot Alexander Ovechkin, German Leon Draisaitl (both have four seasons), Canadians Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid (six seasons each). This season, Kucherov became the third player to break 100 points. Earlier this mark was conquered by Edmonton players Draisaitl (104 points) and McDavid (134 points).
New Jersey is second in the Capital Division standings with 97 points in 70 games, and Tampa is third in the Atlantic Division standings with 90 points in 71 games. In the next match, New Jersey will host Minnesota on March 22, Tampa will play Montreal on the same day on the road.
In other games of the game day, Vegas defeated Columbus at home (7: 2), the Russian forward of Columbus Kirill Marchenko and his compatriot from Vegas striker Pavel Dorofeev scored the puck and gave one assist each, the goalkeeper of the guests Daniil Tarasov was replaced in the 37th minute of the match following the fifth missed puck.
The New York Rangers defeated Nashville at home (7: 0), the first six goals were scored in the first period, the team from New York repeated the club record for this indicator, it had previously achieved this in 1999 in a match once morest Los -Angeles. Russian Rangers forward Artemy Panarin scored the puck and made two accurate passes, bringing the total number of points scored in the season to 80 (23 + 57). “St. Louis” defeated “Winnipeg” (3:0) at home, “Vancouver” was stronger than “Anaheim” (2:1) away.
