NHL's First-Goal Club Gets a New Chapter

Every first NHL goal has the same clean finish on the scoresheet, but none of them arrives that way. The league's latest batch of milestone moments gives you a reminder that the grind starts long before a player ever gets the puck past a goalie for the first time. Those scenes usually tell you as much about a prospect's path as any scouting report does. The fun is in the build-up, because the first one can change how everybody sees the next one.