Will Nikita Kucherov Score 100 Goals This Year? Probably, Yeah, Why The Hell Not
You know what? Thank god the NHL isn’t going to the Olympics this year because that means the Russians won’t get to have Nikita Kucherov put up 5 goals a game and win that gold for Putin. Kucherov finished last season tied for 2nd in the league in goals with 40. Through just 16 games so far this season, he’s already put up 15 and yeah, have fun trying to get him to slow down.
You know when the English first showed up to America and they could fight with guns while all the Natives had were bow and arrows? At least that’s how I think it went. I need to brush up on my history but what I’m trying to say is that Nikita Kucherov has an AK-47 for a shot and the rest of the league is still working with slingshots in comparison. There’s no stopping that. And yes, that was a filthy pass from Namestnikov to set it all up. The entire Lightning team is playing out of their minds at the moment. Exhibit A:
Is that good? Did they break the game?
But it’s easy to rack up points when all you need to do is put the puck on Kucherov’s tape to get an automatic assist. I said this about Kucherov last month.
“When you can shoot the fuck out of the puck like that, there’s not a single goalie in this league that can do anything about it. Goalies in the NHL are like quarterbacks in the NFL. There might be 4 good ones. So as long as Nikita Kucherov isn’t playing against any one of those tendies, he’s going to score every night he’s on the ice.”
Just put the puck on his stick and there won’t be a corner left un-sniped. And quick little sidenote here. If you’re somebody who doesn’t follow the game that closely but you find yourself in a room full of hockey hardos, just mention “how sick Kucherov’s release is” and the entire room will start cumming themselves. Instant hockey clout right there.