Sean Allen and Victoria Matiash make their betting picks for the second half of the NHL season, one for every team.

Brayden Point gave Tampa Bay the lead at 3:34 of the first period, beating Arvid Soderblom with a wrist shot off a pass from Nikita Kucherov, before Connor Bedard tied the game in the second period.

Just how good is Blackhawks forward Connor Bedard? It's a question I've been ... 46A), Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov (24G, 52A) and Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele (31G, 30A). Heck, 35 players already ...

CHICAGO --Nikita Kucherov scored a power-play goal ... Nazar put the Blackhawks ahead 2-1 at 18:47 when he received Connor Bedard’s pass in the left circle and put a wrist shot past Johansson.

TAMPA-- Connor Bedard scored the first of four straight ... He scored with a wrist shot from the right hash marks to the far side off Nikita Kucherov’s pass from below the goal line.

The Blackhawks, in return for Hagel, got two first-round picks (2023 and 2024), and two players (Boris Katchouk and Taylor Raddysh). The 2023 first-round pick ended up turning into Oliver Moore. As ...

Crevier chased the play and was out of position (he's circled below) and Vlasic chased Nikita Kucherov behind ... The Tyler Bertuzzi-Connor Bedard-Frank Nazar line had a great shift around the ...

Connor Bedard tied the game on the power play ... 3:34 Brayden Point (28) - Nikita Kucherov, Jake Guentzel The Lightning opened the scoring on Tuesday off the blade of Brayden Point.

Nikita Kucherov later scored the winner on ... After the puck was rimmed into the corner and back out, Connor Bedard took it off the right-side wall. Three Lightning skaters circled to him ...

At 3:34 of the opening frame, with both teams at full strength, Brayden Point buried one off a beautiful feed from Nikita Kucherov ... At 10:19 of the second, Connor Bedard scored a beauty.

Playing with Connor Bedard paid dividends for him there ... the Lightning tied it up at 19:19. Nikita Kucherov threw one in front and Jake Guentzel tapped it in to tie the game.

Nikita Kucherov, who had three points in last ... the Blackhawks got an extended 5v3 power play early in the second. Connor Bedard took over with the extra space on the ice. They did score with ...