![]() ![]() Tampa Bay Lightning Early years, "The Triplets" era (2013–2017) He signed a three-year entry level contract with the Lightning on 10 September 2012 while playing in the QMJHL. In an attempt to transition to the North American style, Kucherov played major junior hockey with the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). In the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected 58th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning. He spent three seasons with the team, and made his professional debut in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) during this time, playing 27 KHL games over the 2010––12 seasons. ![]() Kucherov played for Krasnaya Armiya of the Russian Junior Hockey League, the junior team of CSKA Moscow starting in the 2009–10. Kucherov holds the record for most points by a Russian-born player in a single season (128), as well as the Lightning franchise playoff record for most points goals and assists. Kucherov won the Stanley Cup twice with the Lightning, in 20, leading the playoffs in scoring both times. Regarded as one of the best players in the world, Kucherov won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer and the Ted Lindsay Award as the best player voted by fellow NHL players, for the 2018–19 season. Nikita Igorevich Kucherov ( Russian: Никита Игоревич Кучеров born 17 June 1993) is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger and alternate captain for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). ![]() Kucherov with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2014 ![]()
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