MOSCOW, May 23. Tampa Bay forward Nikita Kucherov is ahead of the striker» Washington «Alexander Ovechkin in career points scored in the playoffs of the National Hockey League (NHL). On Sunday, Tampa Bay beat Florida in the third match of the second round of the NHL playoffs (5: 1) and led the series to four wins 3-0. Kucherov scored a goal and three assists. In 123 NHL playoff games, Kucherov scored 142 points (48 goals + 94 assists). The 28-year-old striker is 37th in the NHL playoffs all-time scorer list, surpassing Ovechkin (72 goals and 69 assists in 147 games). Ovechkin's Washington in the current playoff draw finished in the first round , yielding to Florida. In the list of the most productive Russians in the Stanley Cup draws, Kucherov came in third, ahead are only three-time Stanley Cup winner in Pittsburgh Evgeni Malkin (180 points in 177 matches) and a three-time Stanley Cup winner with Detroit » Sergei Fedorov (176 points in 183 meetings).
