Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to the authorTampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Rangers and equalized in the final series of the Eastern Conference of the playoffs of the National Hockey League. The current champions managed to bounce back from 0-2 thanks to another goal by Nikita Kucherov. «During my appearances on television, I always told the children to watch him, his game. When he is about to make a transfer, he almost never looks in the direction of the addressee «He looks and moves in the other direction, leads his opponent, opens zones for his partners. Such foresight, the ability to get ahead of events is exceptional,» these words belong to the great and incomparable Wayne Gretzky, and they were uttered in relation to Nikita Kucherov. After the third match of the series final series of the East, in which «Tampa» scored a crucial victory over the «Rangers» and closed the gap, the Russian striker «lightning» became the most talked about personality. And not without reason: it was Kucherov who became the creator of that Lightning victory, having built all three goals of the team. In honor of the Russian, The Athletic even published a large material with the unequivocal heading «What makes Kucherov unique? Gretzky and the rest discuss his path to glory.» The text itself begins with the words that «Kucherov was unique at the age of 19. In practice, he always tried to implement crazy, creative things that his partners would never have dared.»
