First NHL Goals/Wins - 2020–21

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I guess now is as good a time as ever to do an update.

• I wasn't giving too much weight to it this year, because rosters are complicated with taxi squads and flat caps, but currently 4 teams sit without a first-goal so far this season: Calgary, Colorado, Edmonton, and Washington; keep an eye out for names such as Byram, Timmins, Lagesson, and Russel - neither Calgary nor Washington have any immediate/roster-active candidates to break the goose egg

• There is a three-way tie for most first-goals for, with 5 goals, between Chicago (Kurashev, Suter, Mitchell, Beaudin, Hagel), Florida (Luostarinen, Heponiemi, Lammikko, Marchment, Lomberg), and New Jersey (Smith, Sharangovich, McLeod, Kuokkanen, Maltsev); names like Carlsson, or Stillman could help one of them take the lead - New Jersey doesn't have an strong/roster-active candidate to pull ahead

• Three teams have given up a generous 5 goals against, so far: Anaheim (Kaliyev, Leonard, Joshua, Handemark, Pederson), Nashville (Foote, Carlsson, Lorentz, Marchment, Gardner), and Philadelphia (Studnicka, McLeod, Frederic, Friedman, Fogarty)

• On the flipside, four teams have made this far into the season without a first-goal against: Dallas, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Vancouver

• With those numbers laid out, New Jersey is rocking a league leading +5 (5-0) rating, while Philadelphia has a sour -4 (1-5)

• We are currently pacing for about 98 first-goals, which is what we hit in last year's shortened season, and which prorates to about a crazy 144 goals over 82 games, not even counting the potential of first-goals in the playoffs... I don't think that is reasonable or sustainable The highest since I started tracking is 123.

 

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names like Carlsson, or Stillman could help one of them take the lead

Interestingly these two players were both just traded... for each other, so technically both could still help their new team pull ahead! "laugh:

 

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09/04/21 - Jonas Johansson (COL) vs. (ANA) SO

 

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Wyatt Kalynuk's First NHL Goal:




Talk about barely crossing the goal line.

 

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First NHL goal for Arttu Ruotsalainen!

 

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10/04/21 - Wyatt Kalynuk (CHI) vs. (CBJ)

 

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11/04/21 - Arttu Ruotsalainen (BUF) vs. (PHI)

 

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Tanner Jeannot's First NHL Goal:

 

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13/04/21 - Tanner Jeannot (NSH) vs. (TBL)



13/04/21 - Igor Shesterkin (NYR) vs. (NJD) SO

 

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16/04/21 - Jeremy Swayman (BOS) vs. (NYI) SO

 

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Wade Allison's First NHL Goal:

 

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17/04/21 - Wade Allison (PHI) vs. (WSH)

17/04/21 - Pavel Buchnevich (NYR) vs. (NJD) HT

 

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Vitali Kravtsov's First NHL Goal:

 

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Marian Studenic's First NHL Goal:

 

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Vitali Kravtsov's First NHL Goal:

Call it back!

 

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18/04/21 - Vitali Kravtsov (NYR) vs. (NJD)
18/04/21 - Marian Studenic (NJD) vs. (NYR)

 

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No firsts last night but happy 1768th to Patrick Marleau!
Undeniably impressive!

 

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Nolan Foote's First NHL Goal:

 

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20/04/21 - Nolan Foote (NJD) vs. (PIT)



20/04/21 - Spencer Knight (FLA) vs. (CBJ) W

 

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23/04/21 - Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (BUF) vs. (BOS) W

 

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23/04/21 - Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (BUF) vs. (BOS) W

Congrats to 6K.

 

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24/04/21 - Joachim Blichfeld (SJS) vs. (MIN)

 

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Alex Barre-Boulet's First NHL Goal: Blue Jackets @ Lightning

 

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24/04/21 - Joachim Blichfeld (SJS) vs. (MIN)

 

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25/04/21 - Alex Barre-Boulet (TBL) vs. (CBJ)