{"id":390134,"date":"2026-01-04T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390134\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:06:07","slug":"kucherov-has-5-points-lightning-cruise-past-sharks-for-7th-win-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390134\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucherov has 5 points, Lightning cruise past Sharks for 7th win in row"},"content":{"rendered":"

Point gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 2:37 of the first period. While on a 3-on-2, Point took a pass from the left wing from Max Crozier<\/a> and beat Askaov by the blocker with a wrist shot.<\/p>\n

Raddysh extended it to 2-0 at 4:08. Kucherov turned behind the net and found Raddysh at the top of the right circle, and his one-timer got through the arm of Askarov.<\/p>\n

“He’s all-world; he’s the Kucherov that we love to watch,” Raddysh said. “He’s a master at his craft. Just to play with him is special.”<\/p>\n

Hagel pushed it to 3-0 at 6:46. Jake Guentzel<\/a> bumped a pass from the left wing to Hagel, driving the net, and his one-timer beat Askarov by the blocker. Nedeljkovic replaced Askarov following the goal.<\/p>\n

Regenda cut it to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 10:50. He swept the puck in off both posts and over the goal line off a rebound of Timothy Liljegren<\/a>‘s shot from the point following a pass from Celebrini.<\/p>\n

“Incredible pass by [Celebrini]. Whatever he does, he’s just incredible,” Regenda said. “I was lucky that right after, I had another chance. Also, it was post, post, and in. I was like, Oh, my God, it’s not going to go in.”<\/p>\n

Raddysh\u2019s second goal came on the power play to extend it to 4-1 at 2:49 of the second period, a one-timer from the point that beat Nedeljkovic by the blocker.<\/p>\n

James scored 1:06 later to make it 5-1 at 3:55. The puck bounced in front to James after a face-off, and he made a backhand move around Nedeljkovic’s left pad.<\/p>\n

Regenda\u2019s second goal cut it to 5-2 at 9:50. Jeff Skinner<\/a> skated down the left wing and shot off Vasilevskiy’s left pad, and the rebound went to Liljegren in front before the puck deflected off Regenda and in.<\/p>\n

Kucherov scored a power-play goal at 14:08 to make it 6-2 when his wrist shot beat Nedeljkovic by the blocker after skating down from the right wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Point gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 2:37 of the first period. While on a 3-on-2, Point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-390134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}