Erskine and Semin congratulate the ginger after his milestone goal. (Photo credit: Gregg Forwerck)
Here's video of Eakin's milestone marker made possible by a sweet Alex Semin cross-ice pass.
When I was twenty, I was a college senior. A few months from getting my Visual Arts degree from UMBC, I had a 1998 Toyota Camry, and I got paid $7.50 an hour to work for the school’s newspaper.
At twenty-years-old Cody Eakin is in the NHL. He plays on the league’s best team. With his entry-level contract, he makes almost $1 million a year. And tonight, November 4th, 2011, he notched his first NHL point and his first NHL goal against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Someone should knock him down a peg.
Alex Ovechkin, immediately after tonight’s 5-1 victory, did exactly that.
