Players quite often exaggerate their first goals.
You know, the ol' coast-coast, deked everyone on the ice ... twice ... and then popped the water bottle.
The story gets better and better with time.
Branden Klatt won't need to fabricate any of the details of his first WHL goal.
The rookie left-winger got in alone, made a great deke and put a backhander under the crossbar.
"You just try to put it on net," said Klatt, who was wearing The Jacket, the Edmonton Oil Kings' version of the hard-hat. "You never end up putting it where you planned to put it.