{"id":575795,"date":"2026-04-01T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575795\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:40:09","slug":"kucherov-karlsson-zacha-named-nhls-three-stars-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575795\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucherov, Karlsson, Zacha named NHL&#8217;s three stars of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kucherov led the league with 26 points (nine goals, 17 assists) in 14 games as the Lightning continue to challenge Buffalo for first place in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time defending Art Ross Trophy winner as the league&#8217;s top scorer hit the 100-point mark for a fourth straight season when he had four assists in a 5-2 win over Toronto on March 7.<\/p>\n<p>Kucherov, who has missed Tampa Bay&#8217;s last two games with an illness, entered Wednesday second in league scoring with 121 points, four behind Edmonton captain Connor McDavid.<\/p>\n<p>Karlsson was second in scoring last month with 24 points (nine goals, 15 assists) in 17 games, while Zacha had a league-leading 13 goals in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues forward Jimmy Snuggerud was named March&#8217;s top rookie after posting seven goals and eight assists over 14 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kucherov led the league with 26 points (nine goals, 17 assists) in 14 games as the Lightning continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-575795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575795","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=575795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}