{"id":536308,"date":"2026-04-02T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:47:14","slug":"nikita-kucherov-april-2-preview-vs-the-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536308\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikita Kucherov April 2 Preview vs. the Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikita Kucherov and the Tampa Bay Lightning will face the Pittsburgh Penguins at 7:00 PM ET on Thursday, April 2, 2026. Does a wager on Kucherov interest you? Our stats and information can help.<\/p>\n<p>Kucherov is the Lightning&#8217;s leader in goals (40), assists (81) and points (121). Kucherov is No. 1 among the Lightning&#8217;s forwards in shooting percentage, at 19.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the NHL, other live sports and more on Fubo. What is Fubo? Fubo is a streaming service that gives you access to your favorite live sports and shows on demand. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62737?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1430&amp;pb=974519&amp;cid=wopUTNVjtN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Use our link<\/a> to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Kucherov and Lightning vs. Penguins Info<\/p>\n<p>Kucherov Props vs. Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Points Prop: Over\/Under 1.5 (Over: -130, Under: +100)<br \/>\nAssists Prop: Over\/Under 1.5 (Over: +176, Under: -234)<br \/>\nRecent Kucherov Performance<\/p>\n<p>He has a goal in 31 games this year out of 68 games played, including multiple goals eight times.<br \/>\nKucherov has a point in 54 of 68 games this year, with multiple points in 38 of them.<br \/>\nKucherov has an assist in 45 of 68 games this year, with multiple assists in 24 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikita Kucherov and the Tampa Bay Lightning will face the Pittsburgh Penguins at 7:00 PM ET on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[833,5,189,835,4,37137,1335,834,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-536308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-ds-sports","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-lightning","11":"tag-men","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-preview","14":"tag-nikita-kucherov","15":"tag-professional","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334483423549645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}