CBS Miami · Feb 21, 2020
Panthers Fall To Kings 5-4 During West Coast Road Trip
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Not many players can top the NHL debut that Gabriel Vilardi had on Thursday night.
The Los Angeles center scored 10 seconds into his first shift and added an assist as the Kings defeated the Florida Panthers 5-4.
“My first shift I wasn’t expecting that. No one was,” Vilardi said. “It feels great. I got pretty lucky.”
Vilardi, who was the 11th overall pick in the 2017 draft, scored the fastest rookie debut goal in Kings history when he fired a wrist shot past Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky 86 seconds into the game. He took a short feed from Kurtis MacDermid just inside the blue line, putting it on net.