{"id":301278,"date":"2025-11-23T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301278\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:44:07","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-nikita-kucherov-exits-with-injury-against-washington-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301278\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Nikita Kucherov exits with injury against Washington Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Star forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-kucherov\/8476453\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-kucherov\/8476453\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a> left Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> with an injury and did not return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lightning did not specify what his injury was when they ruled him out for the night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Injury Update: Nikita Kucherov has sustained an injury and will not return to tonight\u2019s game. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TBLvsWSH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TBLvsWSH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1992418951952019865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Eduardo A. Encina of the Tampa Bay Times, Kucherov took a hard hit from Capitals forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/tom-wilson\/8476880\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> in the second period and was slow to get back to the bench. He left the team\u2019s bench and went down the tunnel and did not come back for the third period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had a goal and two assists in just 5:18 of ice time before departing in the Bolts\u2019 5-3 win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Encina also reports forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brayden-point\/8478010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brayden-point\/8478010\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Point<\/a> left Saturday\u2019s game in the second period and briefly returned but went back down the tunnel afterwards. He had zero points in 11:29 before leaving the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Head coach Jon Cooper did not have an update on either player after the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tampa Bay will be back in action on Monday at home against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star forward Nikita Kucherov left Saturday\u2019s game against the Washington Capitals with an injury and did not return.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,106193,82,95645],"class_list":["post-301278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nikita-kucherov-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476453","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}