Firsts are always a nice milestone in the hockey world. First game, first goal, first point, etc. And the higher up you go in the sport, the harder those firsts become.
It’s one thing to be a forward searching for your first goal. Maybe it comes easily, scoring into an empty net or having the puck bounce off a random body part and redirect past the goaltender. Maybe it comes during a rout when the other team has given up, or when it’s late in the game during a devastating loss and the opponents have simply stopped worrying about defending.