Q&A: Robitaille's first goal

By Rich Hammond on August 28, 2009 4:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) |

One of my questions for Luc Robitaille was about the most satisfying goal he scored as a King. ..

ROBITAILLE: ``I'm not sure I can pick one goal. I would say that stepping on the ice, and clearly being really, really nervous on opening night... Stepping on the ice on his first shift and seeing the open goal, after the goalie made a mistake, and yelling at Marcel, `Give me the puck,' and tipping it into the empty net on my first shift and my first shot, that's a cool thing. After that, it always comes down to big goals in the playoffs or overtime or helping the team to an emotional win, but I would say stepping on the ice and scoring, I'll never forget that feeling. I couldn't believe it.''

2 Comments

jet

said:

Rich -- you need to write a book, this is great stuff.

August 28, 2009 5:26 PM

PRMan said:

I'll never forget him scoring from his stomach.

August 28, 2009 8:36 PM

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey. E-mail J.P. at jp.hoornstra
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Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews
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