Goaltender who gave up Alex Ovechkin’s first NHL goal wants signed jersey from Capitals legend: ‘To me, it’s a good story’

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Goaltender who gave up Alex Ovechkin’s first NHL goal wants signed jersey from Capitals legend: ‘To me, it’s a good story’

Normally goaltenders lament giving up goals, but years after retiring from the NHL, Pascal Leclaire looks back at one of them fondly. Leclaire was the goalie who Alex Ovechkin beat to score his first goal in the National Hockey League on October 5, 2005. Ovechkin tallied twice in his NHL debut, and, in total, hit the back of the net five different times on the French Canadian goaltender during his career. “I never thought I was going to end up i…