Nikita Kucherov Stats

Kucherov has 1,124 career regular season points in 879 NHL games, all with Tampa Bay. He also has 177 points in 159 playoff games, which ranks 16th on the NHL’s all-time postseason list.

Three. He won the NHL scoring title in 2018-19 with 128 points, in 2023-24 with 144 and in 2024-25 with 121. Wayne Gretzky leads everyone with 10 Art Ross Trophies.

Two, in 2020 and 2021. He put up 34 points in 25 games during the 2020 bubble run and led all playoff scorers with 32 points in 23 games in 2021, a spring he played after missing the entire regular season following hip surgery.

Twice, in 2019 and 2026. That makes him the 20th player in NHL history to win the MVP award more than once and the fifth winger to do it, after Alex Ovechkin, Bill Cowley, Bobby Hull and Guy Lafleur. Martin St. Louis in 2004 is the only other Lightning player to win it.

Tampa Bay took him 58th overall in the second round of the 2011 NHL Draft, 28 picks into the round. He had just set a World Under-18 Championship scoring record with 21 points in seven games, a mark that stood until James Hagens broke it in 2024.

The 2023-24 season, when he went 44-100 for 144 points in 81 games. Only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Bobby Orr had ever recorded 100 assists in a season before that. Kucherov and Connor McDavid both did it in 2023-24, the first since Gretzky in 1990-91.

He is the franchise leader in career assists with 723, ahead of Victor Hedman’s 639, and he owns the five highest single-season point totals in club history. His 1,124 career points rank second behind Steven Stamkos, who finished his Tampa run with 1,137.

No. He represented Russia at two World Juniors, the 2016 World Cup of Hockey and the 2017 and 2019 World Championships, taking bronze in 2017. Russia has been excluded from IIHF competition since 2022 and was not at the 2026 Milan Games, so he has never played in an Olympic tournament.