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Nikita Kucherov

1993 - Today

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Nikita Igorevich Kucherov (Russian: Никита Игоревич Кучеров; born 17 June 1993) is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger and alternate captain for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Regarded as one of the best players in the world, Kucherov won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer, and the Ted Lindsay Award as the best player voted by fellow NHL players in 2019. He won his second Art Ross Trophy in 2024 and his third in 2025 while also being a finalist for the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award for the second time in both years, winning the Ted Lindsay Award in 2025, and was the runner-up for the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy as the league's goal-scoring leader in 2017. Kucherov won the Stanley Cup twice with the Lightning, in 2020 and 2021, leading the playoffs in scoring both times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Nikita Kucherov is the 259th most popular hockey player (down from 225th in 2024), the 3,075th most popular biography from Russia (down from 3,035th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Hockey Player.

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Nikita Kucherov ranks 259 out of 676. Before him are Brendan Shanahan, Mark Streit, Kenny Jönsson, Patrick Marleau, Pierre-Édouard Bellemare, and Marcel Hossa. After him are Ľubomír Višňovský, Jiří Dopita, Joe Thornton, Niko Kapanen, Oleg Tverdovsky, and Leo Komarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1993, Nikita Kucherov ranks 315. Before him are Valeri Qazaishvili, Micah Christenson, Jean-Pierre Nsame, Nadine Lustre, Yalitza Aparicio, and Arnór Ingvi Traustason. After him are Valon Berisha, Uroš Spajić, Richmond Boakye, Jennifer Stone, Bambie Thug, and Yoon So-hee.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikita Kucherov ranks 3,075 out of 3,761. Before him are Yelena Afanasyeva (1967), Elena Lyadova (1980), Maria Butina (1988), Svetlana Petcherskaia (1968), Sergey Abramov (1972), and Glukoza (1986). After him are Nikolai Kovsh (1965), Elena Temnikova (1985), Oleg Makarov (1962), Aleksey Kazakov (1976), Elena Khrustaleva (1980), and Sati Kazanova (1982).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Russia

Among hockey players born in Russia, Nikita Kucherov ranks 51. Before him are Valeri Bure (1974), Sergei Gonchar (1974), Alexander Radulov (1986), Sergei Nemchinov (1964), Dmitri Mironov (1965), and Sergei Bobrovsky (1988). After him are Maxim Afinogenov (1979), Viktor Kozlov (1975), Alexander Galimov (1985), Alexander Karpovtsev (1970), Valeri Zelepukin (1968), and Andrei Kovalenko (1970).

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