Tampa Bay Lightning leading scorer Nikita Kucherov will miss Saturday night’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes with an illness, the team announced shortly before game time.
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Kucherov, the Lightning’s leading scorer, is on a bit of heater this season, sitting second in league scoring with 23 points off 11 goals and 12 assists in 14 games.
Heading into Saturday’s game, Kucherov had a four-game point streak during which he had 12 points (including a four-game, five-goal streak). Kucherov has dominating to a level that he has been in early Hart trophy conversation.
The Lightning are seventh in the Eastern Conference at 6-4-4.
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