3 – Number of current Capitals whose first NHL goal was assisted by Jason Chimera, one more than the number of Caps who will be able to tell their grandkids that Alex Ovechkin set up their first tally in the League (which includes Tom Wilson, whose eyes are probably still burning this morning).
Here’s a list of the skaters who have laced ’em up for the Caps so far this year, and the players who assisted on their respective first NHL goals:
Player | Assists |
Karl Alzner | Unassisted |
Nicklas Backstrom | Viktor Kozlov and Michael Nylander |
Jay Beagle | Unassisted |
Troy Brouwer | Patrick Sharp and Aaron Johnson |
John Carlson | Jason Chimera and John Erskine |
Connor Carrick | Marcus Johansson and Karl Alzner |
Jason Chimera | Todd Marchant and Janne Niinimaa |
Martin Erat | David Legwand and Vladimir Orszagh |
John Erskine | Mike Modano |
Eric Fehr | Alexander Semin |
Mikhail Grabovski | Bryan Smolinski and Mathieu Dandenault |
Mike Green | Alex Ovechkin and Chris Clark |
Jack Hillen | Blake Comeau and Dean McAmmond |
Marcus Johansson | Jason Chimera and Matt Hendricks |
Brooks Laich | Jakub Klepis and Tomas Fleischmann |
Michael Latta | To be determined |
Steve Oleksy | Jason Chimera and Marcus Johansson |
Alex Ovechkin | Dainius Zubrus and Jeff Halpern |
Nate Schmidt | To be determined |
Alexander Urbom | Jacob Josefson and David Clarkson |
Aaron Volpatti | Alexandre Bolduc |
Joel Ward | J.P. Dumont and Jason Arnott |
Tom Wilson | Alex Ovechkin and Mikhail Grabovski |
Congrats to Wilson, and heads up to Latta and Schmidt – you guys might want to wear goggles for the postgame scrum when you score your first…