{"id":195997,"date":"2026-03-18T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195997\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:00:12","slug":"kucherov-gets-hat-trick-2-assists-to-power-lightning-past-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195997\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucherov gets hat trick, 2 assists to power Lightning past Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kucherov extended it to 2-0 at 18:49 after he stripped Ben Meyers<\/a>\u00a0of the puck at the top of the slot and finished a give-and-go play with Hagel by pushing it into an open net.<\/p>\n

Kucherov scored again 57 seconds into the second period to make it 3-0, scoring into an open net off a 3-on-1 rush after a tic-tac-toe passing play with Hagel and Cirelli.<\/p>\n

“I thought those guys created their chances,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cAnd they earned their pucks back, and then they’re good players, so they\u2019ve got some good chemistry together, but they made some plays that are just gorgeous goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMann cut it to 3-1 10 seconds later at 1:07. Matty Beniers<\/a>\u00a0intercepted a clearing attempt at the blue line, then slid it to McMann in the left circle, who sent a short-side wrist shot over Vasilevskiy\u2019s right shoulder. It was McMann\u2019s fourth goal in three games since being acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it shows some resilience in this group,\u201d McMann said. \u201cWe\u2019re able to claw back against good teams that are pressing hard. And then I\u2019m also proud to prove the way that we did alter our game and kind of change things up and try and generate more offense, because that’s not always easy to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCann made it 3-2 at 9:46, four seconds after a Seattle power play ended. He skated out from the right corner, delayed, and chipped a shot from the top of the crease off the right post and in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt started with me. Obviously, the first goal (against) there, I turned the puck over at the blue line, and they scored. So, that\u2019s on me,\u201d McCann said. \u201cBut I thought we had a good effort in the second period, obviously, came back and kind of made it a game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kucherov extended it to 2-0 at 18:49 after he stripped Ben Meyers\u00a0of the puck at the top of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-195997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}