Why NHL Legends Marvel At Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov
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Wondery
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🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Stanley Cup Finals begin tonight, with the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning hosting the upstart darlings of Quebec, the Montreal Canadiens. For the Lightning, all eyes will be on their superstar who missed the entire regular season, only to come back and lead them in scoring during the playoffs -- former Hart Trophy winner Nikita Kucherov. The Athletic's Joe Smith has been following the Lightning up close all season, and he joins us to discuss how Kucherov managed to regain his red hot form after five months off, what we learned about Kucherov and the Lightning during a hard-fought seven-game series against the New York Islanders, and why NHL legends like Doug Gilmour and Scotty Bowman think the Russian star is so special.
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| 0:46.0 | The Stanley Cup Finals begin tonight with the underdog Montreal Canadians taking on the reigning Stanley Cup champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning. |
| 1:00.0 | And for the lightning, arguably their best player during these playoffs has been a guy who missed the entire regular season. |
| 1:07.0 | The stamp goes holding feeding him in late past the storm. Coach Raub, power play going, the game is time. |
| 1:22.0 | Today, the Athletics Joe Smith joins us to talk about how former MVP Nikita Kutraoff has been red hot for the bolts after a five month layoff. |
| 1:30.0 | The claims that the lightning were playing games with the timing of his return and why NHL legends marvel at the Russian Star. |
| 1:39.0 | He's got a special vision where he's aware of others on the ice. In a rescue, a mute, a cross we type the recent times, all on the others. |
| 1:44.0 | And that's six cents about them that allow passes to be paid others cannot do. |
| 1:48.0 | Plus, what we learned about the lightning in a heart-fought Game 7 win over the New York Islanders on Friday night. |
| 1:53.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. It's Monday, June 28th, and this is the lead. |
| 2:03.0 | So Joe, it's now been a couple of days since the lightning's dramatic 1-0 Game 7 win against the Islanders. |
| 2:08.0 | That was a serious nail-biter of a game. Was it as loud in the arena as it seemed on TV? |
| 2:14.0 | It was electric here. It has to use a pun here with the lightning. |
| 2:17.0 | I think John Cooper put it best at the end of the game. He's like, I never heard of building that loud. |
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