{"id":45342,"date":"2019-04-13T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=45342"},"modified":"2019-04-13T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T18:05:05","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-nikita-kucherov-suspended-one-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/13\/tampa-bay-lightning-nikita-kucherov-suspended-one-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Nikita Kucherov Suspended One Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kucheni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tampa Bay\u2019s Nikita Kucherov has been suspended for one game for Boarding Columbus\u2019 Markus Nutivaara. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VcQW77cQd1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/VcQW77cQd1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1117112624582483969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Nikita Kucherov Suspended One Game<\/h1>\n<p>Kucherov has been suspended for one game and for an incident with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nutivma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Markus Nutivaara<\/a><\/strong>. With less than five minutes remaining in Game 2, Kucherov tripped Nutivaara. Then, as Nutivaara was getting up Kucherov, checked him into the boards. Kucherov was assessed a minor for tripping, a major for boarding and game misconduct on the play.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Kucherov finished the league with 41 goals and 87 assists for 128 points. He also added 62 minutes\u00a0in penalties. His possession numbers were 52.6 percent Corsi with a relative Corsi of +2.2 percent. Those 87 assists and 128 points led the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Kucherov has spent his entire six-year career with the Lightning. He has put up 188\u00a0goals and 274 assists for 462 career points in 447 career games. He was originally drafted in the second round, 58th overall of the 2011 NHL Draft by the Bolts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krmg.com\/news\/lightning-kucherov-suspended-for-game-for-boarding\/5PAdJRAJ3vdYdf8czZvJ4I\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Presidents&#8217; Trophy-winning Lightning will have to try to win in Columbus on Sunday <\/a>without the player who put up a league-best 128 points during the season. They also could be without banged-up Norris Trophy-caliber defenseman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hedmavi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Victor Hedman<\/strong><\/a>, who did not practice Saturday.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>This is a huge loss for the Bolts as they are already down two games in the series to the Blue Jackets. Without Kucherov in the line-up, Tampa Bay will look to lean more on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stamkst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Stamkos<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pointbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden Point<\/a><\/strong> in Game 3. Kucherov was a key part of the Bolts power play unit which was tops in the league during the regular season. So far in this series, Tampa has yet to score with the man advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolts are also without <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/callary01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Callahan<\/a><\/strong> who missed the first two games with an undisclosed injury and his status for Game 3 is still unknown. If Callahan can&#8217;t go in Game 3 expect <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marteda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danick Martel<\/a><\/strong> to slot into the lineup for the Bolts. Martel had two assists in nine games this season for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"V1BK9gdYSwh7Pylc0C_whA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1128576870\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'V1BK9gdYSwh7Pylc0C_whA',sig:'E4xASZ13Tjvd2JMGKp24JOtpyQXkGkMhnygSXcOrFrg=',w:'594px',h:'416px',items:'1128576870',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension. Tampa Bay\u2019s Nikita Kucherov has been suspended for one game for Boarding Columbus\u2019 Markus Nutivaara. https:\/\/t.co\/VcQW77cQd1 \u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) April 13, 2019 Nikita Kucherov Suspended One Game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":45359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[955,583,42],"class_list":["post-45342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-nikita-kucherov","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}