After becoming one of the NHL’s fastest to attain the mark, the right wing is celebrated before Thursday’s game.

Nikita Kucherov’s stick is as good as gold. The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated the veteran forward recaching the 1,000 NHL points milestone with a special pregame ceremony before their game against ...

On Saturday, Nikita Kucherov became the third-fastest active NHL player to register 1,000 points behind Connor McDavid and ...

Nikita Kucherov scored his 1,000 th point over the weekend in arguably the most typical Nikita Kucherov way possible: by ...

Kucherov has eight points (two goals, six assists) on a five-hame point streak. HIs offense has picked up sharply of late. He's still way off the pace of any of his last three, 100-plus point seasons.

Even though he had left the Lightning, Stamkos spent his only week in Tampa last summer skating with his former teammate.

Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston. The transcripts — which run for over 300 pages — came after ...