Nikita Kucherov is a good hockey player. Like, really good. Like, really really good. So good that he’s scoring at an historic rate so far this season. And considering the season is 58 games old, that’s quite something. Every year, we see players go on ten or twenty game hot streaks putting up buckets of points. But the Tampa Bay Lightning star forward has kept this pace well over two-thirds of the way into the season.
I’m normally hesitant to acknowledge “on-pace-for” stats. They’re usually misleading because players don’t keep up what they do in small samples over a full season.