NHL Star Power Index: Flyers’ Matvei Michkov piling up points, Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov still dominating

Welcome to the Nhl Index Power Star: A weekly caliber of players who control a substantial buzz around the league. When a player is included in this list, it may not be good, it means that they capture a lot of attention from the world of hockey.

These players do not have any particular order when it comes to the amount of buzzer they create. We will review the Power Star index every week during the regular season.

Philadelphia’s flyers separated with coach John Tortorella last week after an inevitable three seasons. With the future of the uncertain franchise, a positive has been the work of the Rookie Matvei Michkov striker.

Michkov has scored four goals and three assists during his last three games, while he recorded a couple of two -goals games during this period.

On Monday 2-1 victory against Nashville predators, Michkov won two assists and ended up tie Peter Zezel for the sixth point games of various points (18) for a Flyers’ boyfriend. Michkov also tied Eric Lindros (1992-93), Larry Goodenough (1975-76) and Bill Barber (1972-73) for the ninth attendance (34) for a Novio Flyers.

Michkov – Selection number 7 of 2023 Nhl Draft: She is in her first season in North America after being released from her KHL contract in the last season. He currently ranks second among the NHL Rookies at points (58) behind only Montreal Canadiens defending Lane Hutson (62).

Michkov recorded a two-goal performance on Saturday in a 7-4 victory against Buffalo Sabers. In fact, he opened the score for the flyers in a contest full of offenses.

At 5:27 of the party, Flyers’ defender, Egor Zemula, blocked a shot of knowledge in the defensive zone and Philadelphia went out to the races. The flyers forward, Travis Konecny, got his loose fist and embarked on one two to one with Michkov by the ice. Upon receiving the shit around the red line, Michkov brought the shit to the offensive zone, kept patient and started a shot under the Knowledge goalkeeper’s glove, Ukko Pekka-Luukkonen.

In the second period, Konecny ​​and Michkov combined to score another goal for Philadelphia. At Marc’s 10:36, Flyers captain, Sean Couturier, was able to release -throughout the Flyers’ blue line and went back to Konecny. Shortly after receiving the puck, Konecny ​​sent his chest ahead of Michkov, who headed ahead of the defense. Michkov finally sent a shot to Pekka-Luukkonen’s shoulder.

Michkov is in a six -game streak in which he has registered four goals and six assists.

The Flyers Forward star is undoubtedly taking place in the Calder Trophy as the first Rookie of the NHL. The Hutson Award is likely to be lost at the moment, but Michkov is not too far back from an offensive point of view. Regardless of whether the hardware takes home, Michkov continues to show that he is an integral part of the future of Philadelphia.

The NHL Punta Points Race is heating significantly with only a few weeks in the regular season. At the head of this battle is Nikita Kucherov, the Tampa Bay Lightning star, who is giving points at will.

Kucherov recently recorded an eight -game streak in which he scored five goals and 14 assists.

In 71 games this season, the lightning star has accumulated 111 points (33 goals, 78 assists) and is only three points behind Nathan Mackinnon, three points behind Colorado Avalanche, for the leadership of the League at points (114). Kucherov, who won the Ross Art Trophy as the leader of points last season, has recorded a goal in four of his last six games, while recorded four consecutive multi-assistance performances before Thursday’s game against Columbus Blue Jackes.

Only 2:02 at the victory of 5-3 on Saturday against the islanders of New York, Lightning Ombudsman Victor Hedman found Kucherov in the little area in the neutral zone and Kucherov was in charge of the network. Upon receiving the puck, Kucherov lit the afterburners, skated in the offensive zone, and sent an overwhelming shot that nailed the stick and the net.

Kucherov then played the facilitator’s role with lightning with a 3-0 lead in the second period. With only 17 seconds remaining in the second period, the lightning stalls settled in the offensive zone when Kucherov received a pass from the teammate Brandon Heagel in the face circle. Kucherov could have certainly achieved a vicious timing, but instead chose to slide his head to Brayden Point for the easy goal.

As the season ends, Kucherov is at the pace of 128 points, which would be linked by the second highest production of his 11 -year career. He has already won his fourth consecutive campaign of 100 points after having 144 points in 2023-24.

Kucherov’s play capacity has been on full exhibition until the end, and is found there with Mackinnon for the leadership of the points at the end of the regular season.

The New York Rangers are fighting for their lives as a Playoff, as the regular season comes from the next two weeks. Although it has been a campaign up and down, a constant has been the game of Adam Fox on the blue line of the team.

Fox is second in the Rangers at points (56) and attends (47) while running the team in game attendance (16). The veteran defender won three goals and attendance during his last three games, including a recent two-goal performance in a 6-1 victory against San Jose sharks on Saturday.

At 4:48 of the second period against San Jose, Fox was the beneficiary of a fantastic puck movement. When the Rangers were able to keep the shit in the shark area, Rangers advanced Mika Zibanejad, could slide the punch at Winger Brennan Othmann, who won the cut fox. Fox ended up getting his fist on his stick and was able to go to the high shelf to beat the porter of the sharks Alexandar Georgiev.

With the Rangers with a 4-0 advantage, Fox was able to find the back of the network for the second time in the game. At the 3:47th brand of the third period, after the supporter K’Andre Miller sent a shot, the Rangers Center, JT Miller, tried to devastate his fist on the net from the side, and the puck ended up banking from Georgiev along the goal line. Noting that shit was not completely on the finish line, Fox touched the network on the net on one of the easiest goals that it probably will have.

Fox has become much more involved in the offensive end of ice in recent weeks. In fact, The Star Defendeman has registered nine total features in its last three contests.

As the Rangers try to get one of the wild card points of the Eastern Conference, Fox will probably have to be a large part of the team’s attack at the end of the regular season.

Jordan Binnington brought together a spectacular show on the 4th nations at the beginning of this season. Since then, Binnington has continued this stellar level of play for an St. Louis Blues fighting for a Wild Card playoff at the Western Conference.

Binnington has reduced a 10-2-0 record to get 2.00 goals in the average and a percentage of .917 from 4 nations.

The Blues Netminder has allowed only three total goals in their last three games, which have landed the blues in the victory column. In its most recent start, Binnington stopped 20 of the 21 shots he faced in a 2-1 victory for overtime against Detroit’s red wings on Tuesday.

Binnington has allowed two or fewer goals in nine of his 13 games since the 4 nations ended with his face, while also victorious in six consecutive beginnings.

The blues recorded an 11 -game winning streak dating back to March 15. With Binnington playing at the elite level, he could not have reached a better time for an St. Louis who fights for the late Playoff life in the regular season.