"Ovechkin FIRES! HE SCORESSS!"
"Alexander Ovechkin. Welcome on board!"
"It feel very good. I must thank my [teammates] for giving me two excellent passes. It was just a shot. I must only shoot, and I score two goals. It's my first game in the NHL, we win, and I score two goals. It's a nice start."
"You were #1 :) ."
On his NHL debut 20 years ago at MCI Center before 16,325 fans, 20-year-old Alexander Ovechkin broke the plexiglass on his first shift while slamming Radoslav Suchy into the boards. He scored his first NHL goal 7:21 into the second period on a one-timer past Pascal Leclaire, with assists from Dainius Zubrus and Jeff Halpern, then honored his late brother Sergei with a glove kiss and upward point. Ovechkin added a power-play rebound goal later in the period and the Capitals won 3-2. Ovechkin later thanked teammates and has since amassed 897 career goals, an NHL record; he sent Leclaire a signed jersey reading "You were #1 :)."
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