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The Top Line In The Playoffs

05/21/2015 at 8:27am EDT

from Martin Fennelly of the Tampa Tribune,

They can’t stop these guys.

The New York Rangers, who closed out Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, who survived Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, have a problem on their hands. They’ve yet to slow the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat.

Hey, join the club.

It was Kucherov who finished it Wednesday night in Game 3 at Amalie Arena — saving all by snapping a wicked wrist shot past Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist early in overtime for a 6-5 win and a 2-1 series lead.

Kooooooch.

It could just as easily have been Johnson or Palat. They’re the best scoring line and story line of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

But it was Kucherov, finding a sliver of space and beating Lundqvist, just as he beat Carey Price in Game 1 at Montreal.

“Kuch is one of those guys who, when you think he literally has nothing, he just kind of whips up something and makes something out of it,” Johnson said.

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Watch Kucherov's game winning goal in OT below...

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