-We here in Tampa Bay Lightning Land just can’t get enough of Nikita Kucherov, and it seems like many others can’t, either. Joe Smith wrote up a (pay walled) piece about a more mature Kuch and how he’s changed over the seasons.
In previous years, if you ran into Nikita Kucherov during a scoring slump, you’d find a real grump.
That might be putting it mildly — the ultra-competitive All-Star couldn’t hide his torment over his on-ice struggles. You could see the sulk in his body language on the ice.