Bizarre situation unfolds in Anaheim as Drysdale, Zegras score 1st NHL goals with the same puck

The NHL can produce some oddities every now and again, but two players sharing the same first goal puck is something I'm not sure I've seen before. Such is the case for rookies Jamie Drysdale and Trevor Zegras as both players scored their first goals using the same puck on Thursday night against the Arizona Coyotes.

After being out-gunned by the Yotes in the first period, the Ducks came into the second down 2-0 on goals by Connor Garland and Clayton Keller. The Ducks' 2020 first round pick Jamie Drysdale cut the lead to 1 at the 12:01 mark of the 2nd period, with Zegras knotting things up just 2:29 later at the 14:30 mark. The Ducks would go on to take a 3-2 OT decision on Adam Henrique's 8th of the season.

Typically, when a player scores his first goal, the puck is immediately fished out of the net and brought to the equipment manager. In this case, however, Drysdale's goal was initially credited to forward Ducks forward Max Jones. Once it was determined that he had not tipped the puck, it was credited to Drysdale, but by then, Zegras had already scored using the same puck.

Though it appears as though the Ducks have just issued a separate puck to one of Zegras or Drysdale, a couple of Twitter users, including @JoshSimpson77 have proposed cutting the original puck in half, a la Martin Marincin (1st goal) and Andrew Miller (1st point) from the 2014-15 Edmonton Oilers.

With his 2nd period marker, Drysdale became the second youngest Ducks player and the youngest in 25 years to score in his NHL debut, with Chad Kilger being a mere 28 days younger when he accomplished the feat in 1995.

Drysdale is also just the fourth 18-year-old blueliner to score in his NHL debut, joining Ray Bourque, Scott Stevens and Jason Doig as the only defensemen in NHL history to have done it.

Zegras and Drysdale are the youngest pair of teammates to score a goal less than 2:30 apart in NHL history as well.

The future certainly looks bright in Anaheim.

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