Kucherov, though, was more modest, saying the power play remains a work in progress.
“I still think the power play is not where we want it,” Kucherov said. “Obviously, we’ve got different guys playing in the units, and it’s a little hard. But I think that’s something we needed to do, you know, get a couple of goals and get us going a little bit. And we started to play better.”
The Lightning did start to play better, and Kucherov, as he often is, was the catalyst.
Tampa Bay is now 17-1-1 in its past 19 games, and during that stretch, Kucherov leads the NHL with a whopping 44 points (15 goals, 29 assists).
“We all have good days, we all have bad days,” Bruins coach Marco Sturm said. “… If you give a guy like Kucherov 10 minutes on the power play, you know you did something wrong, so that’s on us.”