{"id":940051,"date":"2026-10-25T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940051\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:16:09","slug":"kucherov-becomes-lightnings-all-time-points-leader-in-ot-loss-to-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940051\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucherov becomes Lightning\u2019s all-time points leader in OT loss to Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kucherov has 1,138 points (405 goals, 733 assists) in 890 games with Tampa Bay, breaking a tie with Steven Stamkos, who now plays for the Nashville Predators. Stamkos had 1,137 points (555 goals, 582 assists) in 1,082 games.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitri Simashev, who scored his first two NHL goals, won it at 1:44 of overtime after tapping in a pass from Barrett Hayton from the left post on the rush.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Guenther and Anders Lee also scored, and Vincent Trocheck had two assists for the Mammoth (8-4-0), who had lost two of three (1-2-0). Karel Vejmelka made 28 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Guentzel and Brayden Point\u00a0scored for the Lightning (7-3-1), who have lost two games in a row, including a 6-3 loss at the Colorado Avalanche on Friday. Dennis Hildeby made 23 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Guentzel gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 5:10 of the first period, firing a shot from the point that went in off the stick of Nate Schmidt through the legs of Vejmelka.<\/p>\n<p>Kailer Yamamoto tied it 1-1 at 7:02 when his pass across the crease deflected off the stick of Emil Lilleberg and past Hildeby.<\/p>\n<p>Pontus Holmberg put the Lightning back ahead 2-1 at 10:06 on a wrist shot over the shoulder of Vejmelka.<\/p>\n<p>Point\u2019s power-play goal extended it to 3-1 at 12:42, tapping in a shot from Kucherov.<\/p>\n<p>Guenther scored on the power play to cut it to 3-2 at 17:39 with a one-timer.<\/p>\n<p>Conor Geekie made it 4-2 at 5:32 of the second period, lifting the puck over Vejmelka\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n<p>Lee cut it to 4-3 at 14:39, deflecting a bouncing puck off a shot from MacKenzie Weegar.<\/p>\n<p>Simashev tied it 4-4 with his first goal at 17:02, sending a wrist shot past Hildeby blocker side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kucherov has 1,138 points (405 goals, 733 assists) in 890 games with Tampa Bay, breaking a tie with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-940051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940051","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=940051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}