{"id":549585,"date":"2016-11-07T12:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=549585"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:36:55","slug":"nikita-kucherov-named-nhls-first-star-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/nikita-kucherov-named-nhls-first-star-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikita Kucherov Named NHL’s First Star Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK\/NHL<\/a> – Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov<\/a>, Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford<\/a> and New York Rangers center Kevin Hayes<\/a> have been named the NHL’s “Three Stars” for the week ending Nov. 6.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Kucherov shared the League lead with 3-4-7 in three contests to guide the Lightning (7-4-1, 15 points) to five out of a possible six standings points and second place in the Atlantic Division. He matched a career high with 2-2-4, including the game-winning goal, in a 6-1 victory over the New York Islanders Nov. 1. Kucherov added one assist in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Boston Bruins Nov. 3 before closing the week with 1 1-2, his third multi-point performance of the campaign, in a 4-1 triumph over the New Jersey Devils Nov. 5. The 23-year-old Moscow, Russia, native ranks third in the NHL with 15 points in 11 games this season, including a League-high 11 assists.<\/p>\n[protected-iframe id=”038432f4743cc4734313e7b652d15393-114320562-46289989″ info=”hash” class=”twitter-video”]\n (Photos\/Christine Gunn<\/a>)<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter @LightningShout <\/a>and please \u201clike\u201d LightningShout <\/a>on Facebook. You can email us at lightningshout@aol.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW YORK\/NHL – Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov, Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford and New York Rangers center…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":549329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27694890],"tags":[455330,1994,4489958,1996,55876485,287709],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n