Tampa Bay Lightning forward Mitchell Chaffee is coming off a solid 2024-25 season, setting career highs in NHL games played (66), goals (12), assists (6), and points (18).

As the NHL continues to evolve with a rising salary cap and a greater emphasis on youth and speed, a team’s window to win can ...

Kucherov’s half-hearted attempt put him in last in the passing challenge, which was 20 points behind the top point-getter, Elias Pettersson. Nikita Kucherov competes in the NHL All-Star Skills ...

Nikita Kucherov continued his historic season, becoming just the fifth player ever to reach 100 assists in a season. Kucherov picked up his 100th assist against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday.

The lesson Nikita Kucherov learned from childhood coach Gennady Kurdin is on display every time he laces up his skates and steps on to the ice. Kurdin taught Kucherov the very common Russian ...

Kucherov darted behind the net, with 6-foot-6 defenseman Nikita Zadorov giving chase. Kucherov felt Zadorov on his side, did a quick double-backspin move to get free before firing a pass in front ...

There might not be a NHL player more hated than Nikita Kucherov right now. First it was his epic tirade against Montreal Canadiens fans -- and Marc-Andre Fleury -- in his postgame press conference ...

Nikita Kucherov works to get a shot off with Canadiens center Nick Suzuki closing in on a partial breakaway during Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final. [ DIRK SHADD | Times ] “A lot is made about ...

Especially not Nikita Kucherov. Kucherov, 28, was a few hours removed from his epic, Bud Light-fueled press conference, which will make the phrase “No. 1 Bullshit” live forever in Tampa Bay ...

Hall of Famer Doug Gilmour marveled as he watched Nikita Kucherov in Monday's Game 5 from his Toronto-area home. Gilmour, 57, has played with or against some of the best who have ever played in ...

BOSTON — Nikita Kucherov grew up with a poster of the “Russian Five” on the wall of his childhood bedroom, but the motivation derived from the Red Wings legends didn’t leave when he closed ...

DETROIT -- Nikita Kucherov had synthetic ice laid down in his two-car garage to help him perfect the wicked shot and release that allows him to be one of the NHL’s most dangerous offensive threats.