Professor What
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When we did the Top 200 project in 2021 (wow, it's been three years since we did that), Nikita Kucherov was ranked 187, the #20 Russian player in the project. Since then, he's tallied nearly 100 goals, over 200 assists, and compiled two big playoff runs. This season, he's right in the thick of the MVP race, looks likely to win a second Art Ross, and may well end the season as one of four or five players, depending on what happens with McDavid to have 100 assists in a season. I think it goes without saying that he's moved up since we did the project, but the question is, how much? I've got a feeling that if we were to do it all again, he'd be pretty high in the second hundred now if not just inside the top 100. Has he cracked or is at least threatening to crack the top 10 for Russian players in the history of the sport?