Nikita Kucherov

Although hockey is a team sport, lately there has been more and more talk about the individual results and achievements of athletes. And in 2017, the Russian hockey player Nikita Kucherov was recognized as one of the best. Nikita showed a brilliant result: only 2 times the athlete left the ice arena without scoring points. Having played 18 matches, Kucherov scored 6 goals. However, the coach of the Russian hockey player notes that this is not the limit: Nikita must show the result of 50 goals in 50 games.

Nikita Igorevich Kucherov was born in the city of Maykop, Republic of Adygea, on June 17, 1993. Nothing is known about the childhood and parents of the NHL star. Nikita got acquainted with hockey at the age of 5 at the initiative of his mother. Having come with his mother to the ice arena, the kid watched with delight the game of the older guys. A week later, the little athlete was already choosing a club with the help of his father. To the boy's surprise, falling on the ice was not painful and even fun.

The section that Nikita got into was called "Silver Shark", and Kurdin Gennady Gennadievich became the first coach. Soon, Gennady Gennadievich had problems with the management of the club, and he left his job at the Silver Shark. At the same time, Kurdin received an offer to train children from the Polar Bears club. Leaving the "shark", Gennady Gennadievich simply could not leave the pupils and offered a group of children to go with him. Among them was Nikita Kucherov.

The young man played for Polar Bears for 12 years. The first year was spent by Nikita to learn to stand confidently on skates, move smoothly and quickly on the ice, and dodge obstacles. The first lessons seemed to the boy unbearably boring, but when the game began, things went completely differently.

Already 3 years after the start of training, Nikita played at the Moscow championship. Kurdin, realizing that he was working with children, tried not to put pressure on the pupils, and slowly and methodically taught the kids all the intricacies of hockey. In "Polar bears" Kucherov became friends with another famous hockey player Nikita Gusev - the boys loved to play in tandem, passing a pass to each other.

Closer to adolescence, Gennady Gennadievich focused on the physical training of the children, which Nikita did not really like. The young man liked the rapid attacks with the puck more. And because of his short stature (now the height of a hockey player is 180 cm with a weight of 80 kg) sometimes they did not believe in him, but this served as an additional incentive to develop professional skills.

In the 2004-2005 season, Kucherov began playing for the first league and joined the Moscow national hockey team. Considering the sharply increased workload (the guy went out on the ice up to 80 times a year, and most of the rest of the time was occupied by daily training), the boy switched to distance learning and stopped attending school.

He also sorely lacked time for walks with friends. The only friend remained Nikita Gusev, who, like Kucherov, lived in hockey. Kucherov's academic performance in school subjects left much to be desired, so even then Nikita decided to connect the future with professional sports.

An interesting coincidence turned out that the Kucherov family lived not far from Kurdin's house, and the coach often took the boy to training and home in his car. Nikita sat in the back seat and listened attentively to Gennady Gennadyevich's reasoning and instructions.

At the age of 16, Nikita was invited to the Moscow youth hockey club "Red Army". For 2 years in the youth league, Kucherov showed himself to be a capable and promising athlete, and in 2011 he already played in the Continental League for CSKA. In June of the same year, the 49th annual draft of the National Hockey League was held in St. Paul, USA, where the coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, a professional hockey club from Florida, became interested in the 18-year-old Russian athlete.

According to some reports, the former Tampa striker Steve Yizerman liked the game of Nikita Nesterov, a Chelyabinsk player from CSKA, but Steve confused the young people, and Kucherov got the lucky lot. Soon, justice was done, and Nesterov also signed a contract with Tampa Bay Lightning.

2011 was a busy year for Kucherov: in addition to a contract with an overseas hockey club, the young man received an invitation to play for the youth national team of Russia. At the same time Nikita received his first bronze medal at the World Youth Championship.

Simultaneously with the first achievement, Kucherov received the first title, becoming the best forward: according to official statistics, Nikita scored 21 points in 7 matches played. Having played at the world championship, Kucherov immediately went to Canada for the CHL Canada / Russia Series. At the end of 2011, Nikita was approved for the main roster of the youth ice hockey team to participate in the 2012 World Championship.

The following season Nikita played for the Canadian club Quebec Remparts, which played in the youth league. And in the fall of 2013, the captain of the Tampa Bay Lightning main team was seriously injured, as a result of which he urgently needed a replacement.

The best candidate, according to the coach, was already an adult 20-year-old Kucherov. In the first match Nikita scored a goal against the New York Rangers. According to the results of 2013, the Russian hockey player earned 18 points in 58 matches.

In October 2014, Nikita scored three goals in one game for the first time in his sports career in a match with Arizona Coyotes. When calculating the results and calculating the utility coefficient, Kucherov took first place along with Max Pacioretti. In the next season 2015-2016, the hockey player improved his results again, earning 66 points. And already in 2017 Nikita was recognized as the leader of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Despite his youth, Nikita is married. Although the hockey player does not disclose details from his personal life, it is known that Nikita and his wife Anastasia have known each other for many years.

The Kucherovs have no children yet, and in their Christmas photos on Instagram, a couple poses with a dog.

In the first half of 2017, Nikita Kucherov, along with other talented Russian hockey players (Nikita Gusev, Igor Shesterkin, Nikita Zaitsev and others), were summoned to a training camp to prepare for the World Championship as part of the Russian national team. According to the results of the Ice Hockey World Championship, the Russians took third place.

According to statistics presented on the official website of the NHL, in the regular season 2017-2018, Kucherov already has 47 goals and 106 points earned. On the eve of the controversial 2018 Olympic Games, the NHL officially announced that the match schedule would not be adjusted. Thus, Russian athletes will not be able to participate in the Olympics. In this regard, Nikita said that he would not be at the Olympic Games.

In January 2018, the press was stirred up by the story of the first coach of the hockey player Gennady Gennadyevich Kurdin that the grown up and accomplished pupil gave him a car. As a child, the coach jokingly asked Nikita if the boy would give him a new car instead of the old one if he played in the NHL. Kucherov seriously thought about it and answered with consent. And having signed a contract with "Tampa", he presented Kurdin with a Land Cruiser, fulfilling his childhood promise.

2011 - bronze medal at the junior world championship 2012 - silver medal at the youth world championship 2017 - bronze medal at the world championship

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