{"id":443224,"date":"2026-10-31T03:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443224\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T03:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:26:45","slug":"tampa-bay-lightnings-nikita-kucherov-requests-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443224\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning\u2019s Nikita Kucherov Requests Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning and Nikita Kucherov have a big problem.<\/p>\n<p>In typical Elliotte Friedman fashion, the NHL insider has reported that Kucherov has requested a trade from the Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman reveals that Kucherov has informed his teammates and the Lightning organization that he will not re-sign with the team and wants to be traded. Friedman also reports that both Lightning GM and Kucherov&#8217;s agent have declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Kucherov Joins Dylan Larkin &amp; Connor Hellebuyck<\/p>\n<p>Kucherov is the latest player in a list of NHL stars that have requested trades from their respective organizations.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on <a data-ylk=\"slk:HEAVY;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;HEAVY&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nhl\/tampa-bay-lightning\/nhl-trade-rumors-nikita-kucherov-trade-request\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">HEAVY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a data-ylk=\"slk:Tampa Bay Lightning&#039;s Nikita Kucherov Requests Trade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tampa Bay Lightning&#039;s Nikita Kucherov Requests Trade&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nhl\/tampa-bay-lightning\/nhl-trade-rumors-nikita-kucherov-trade-request\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning&#8217;s Nikita Kucherov Requests Trade<\/a> appeared first on <a data-ylk=\"slk:HEAVY;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;HEAVY&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">HEAVY<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning and Nikita Kucherov have a big problem. In typical Elliotte Friedman fashion, the NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-443224","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\/443224","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=443224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}