Watch Tarasenko beat Howard all alone for first NHL goal

Jan 20, 2013, 12:32 AM EDT

There’s some really impressive top-end talent in this season’s crop of rookies and we’ve seen evidence of that over the course of the NHL’s opening day.

In a night littered with impressive performances, Vladimir Tarasenko‘s first career NHL goal still stands out as one of the top highlights.

Tarasenko accepted a stretch pass and found himself well ahead of his fellow St. Louis Blues players and with a clear path to Detroit goaltender Jimmy Howard. He made the most of the opportunity and beat Howard to open up the scoring in what would become a 6-0 victory for St. Louis.

You can watch his goal below:

Tarasenko added a power-play goal just 29 seconds into the second period to give himself a very early lead in the NHL rookie goal scoring race.

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polegojim - Jan 20, 2013 at 12:43 AM

Nice goal and take nothing from it… great effort.

Howard was… not very Howard-like tonight either.
spetznaz777 - Jan 20, 2013 at 1:03 AM

screw this goal, the second was so much better.
jmillmac - Jan 20, 2013 at 5:25 AM

I thought he was VERY Howard-like – its just the Wings D was very in-Lidstrom-like.

I the long run, tonight may end up being more about how poor the Wings’ D is than how dangerous the Blues’ outlet game is, but make no mistake: we may be a defense first team, but we can score this year, too!
blues1988 - Jan 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM

http://video.blues.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=782&id=194206&lang=en&navid=DL|STL|home : for a link to both of his goals, that second goal was so nasty, so excited for this year LGB!
- vbcaps - Jan 20, 2013 at 12:15 PM
  
  Yea that second goal was just dirty.
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jan 22, 2013 at 10:11 AM
  
  Unbelievable. Sucks that I’ll have to hate the Blues though once they realign into the Wild and Jets’ division next year
paperlions - Jan 20, 2013 at 12:11 PM

Apparently, “woooooo!” is the same in Russian and English.

Vladdy looks like the missing piece for this team. A potential pure goal scorer with a natural finishing touch. They had pretty much everything else on last year’s team.
lostpuppysyndrome - Jan 22, 2013 at 10:08 AM

Holy jumpin’ indeed.