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<\/p>\n\u201cThat kid\u2019s on quite a run,\u201d said Lightning head coach Jon Cooper. \u201cI don\u2019t know many players in this league who have four points in a game period, let alone the amount of times he gets them. It\u2019s pretty magnificent. It was pretty cool that he got his first shorty tonight, that was a lot of fun on the bench.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m blessed to be able to see him every night. I love when we come out West and true hockey fans get to see him. They\u2019re blessed to see Connor McDavid every night and Leon Draisaitl and you get to throw Kuch in the mix with the greats that play this game. It\u2019s fun for everyone.\u201d <\/p>\n
Kucherov is also the first player to record 75 points over a 33-game span since Mario Lemieux did it in 1995-1996.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been doing it all year, I think he has more four-point games than he does zero or one-point games,\u201d said linemate Brandon Hagel, who picked up a pair of assists. \u201cIt\u2019s like clockwork for him at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kucherov is seeking his third straight Art Ross trophy for most points and has also led the league in scoring in 2019, the year he won the Hart Trophy as league MVP. McDavid, by comparison, has won five scoring titles and three Harts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no words, simple as that, he does it every night,\u201d said Tampa defenceman J.J. Moser. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t get talked about how impressive it is for him to perform like this night after night. There are simply no words for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthony Cirelli had a pair of goals and Jake Guentzel also scored for the Lightning (43-21-4) who have won four of their last five.<\/p>\n
McDavid and Josh Samanski replied for the Oilers (34-28-9) who have lost two straight and missed out on a glorious opportunity to entrench themselves in the playoff race with most of their key rivals also losing earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate to play in this division,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cA lot of teams are fortunate to play in this division. It\u2019s a bit of a pillow fight right now, but we\u2019re thankful not to have lost any ground. That being said, we have to find a way to win some games here on the road. We have to make some ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edmonton is three points back of Pacific-leading Anaheim, one up on third-place Vegas and just five points clear of fourth-place Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 22, 2026.<\/p>\n
Shane Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat kid\u2019s on quite a run,\u201d said Lightning head coach Jon Cooper. \u201cI don\u2019t know many players in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-553079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553079","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=553079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}