Jordy Bellerive waited a little longer than he would have liked for his first professional point.
Bellerive, 20, was a healthy scratch for the Penguins' season opener against Hershey on Oct. 5, mainly by virtue of being a rookie on a deep team of forwards.
Bellerive made his season debut in the next game, the following week in Lehigh Valley, playing on the team's fourth line. Seven games into the season, he was still searching for his first professional point.
Last week, in Bellerive's eighth game of the season, he finally connected with a 5-on-3 power play goal:
"It was a pretty special feeling, I was getting a little frustrated there," he told me after.