Kucherov danced his way to the right faceoff dot, pulling a Detroit defender toward him before cutting back to the right center hashmark. Kucherov shelved his shot into the top right corner of the Detroit net for his 21 st goal of the season.

Off a fine feed from Nikita Kucherov, Point caught the puck slashing through ... Carolina's Jordan Staal notched a goal and an assist and Andrei Svechnikov scored as the team fell to 2-2-1 in its past five matches. Goalie Pyotr Kochetkov had 31 saves.

Kucherov registered a power-play assist, three shots on goal, two PIM and a minus-2 rating in Sunday's 4-1 loss to the Ducks. Kucherov was held off the scoresheet in the first two games of January ...

TAMPA – Brayden Point scored with 52 seconds remaining in the third period to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. Point took a centering pass from Nikita Kucherov along the right-side boards in the low slot and beat Hurricanes goalie Pyotr Kochetkov with a snap shot from close range.

The Detroit Red Wings scored four goals in the first eight minutes and extended their winning streak to seven games by romping past the visiting Seattle Kraken 6-2 on Sunday. Marco Kasper, J.T. Compher,

DETROIT (AP) — Patrick Kane scored during Detroit’s fast start, and the Red Wings beat the Seattle Kraken 6-2 on Sunday for their seventh consecutive victory.

Cutter Gauthier scored two goals, including one 1:52 into overtime, as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Sunday. Jansen Harkins also scored, and Lukas Dostal stopped 35 shots to help the Ducks snap a three-game losing streak.

Connor Hellebuyck will surely start getting some additional rest later in the season, so the race at the top right now is between Nikita Kucherov ... C29 97. Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an ... Jackson LaCombe added two assists. Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov scored a power-play goal midway through the third period, and Seth ...

Isaiah Collier drove for the go-ahead layup with 2 seconds left to lift the Utah Jazz to a 112-111 overtime victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday night. Collier finished with a career-high 23 points,

In the fourteenth weekly Metropolitan Division snapshot, the division had a combined four regulation losses. The Columbus Blue Jackets and New York Islanders even got hot. All this and more in this week’s snapshot.