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MAIN PHOTO: Riley Kidney proudly shows off his first pro hockey goal puck with the Laval Rocket of the AHL. (Laval Rocket photo)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n LAVAL, Que.:<\/strong> He was in the right spot at the right time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s how Enfield\u2019s Riley Kidney summed up scoring his first pro hockey goal with the Laval Rocket, the AHL affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens, in a 3-2 loss to the Leigh Valley Phantoms on Friday night Nov. 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kidney is a prospect of the Canadiens playing his rookie season of pro hockey with the Rocket. He was drafted by the Habs in round two of the 2021 draft, 63rd overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While the goal came with five ticks left on the clock, the Rocket were pressuring and Kidney feels they would have tied the game if they had more time on the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was just Kidney\u2019s 11th<\/sup> game of the season, one which saw him have an assist already as he plays on the third line for the most part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe AHL is a very strong league and it takes time to adjust to it,\u201d said Kidney in an interview Nov. 20 with The Laker News. \u201cSo scoring my first goal felt awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rangers alum said he had plenty of opportunities to bury the puck in those first dozen games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn my first few games I hit the post and the crossbar and missed a couple great chances so it felt great to finally get one in the back of the net,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kidney described how the play went down that led to his goal, which came on the power-play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur Defence was in control of the puck and I was on the right side of the net,\u201d said Kidney. \u201cWilliam Trudeau shot the puck hitting their defencemen in the leg and the puck bounced out to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI one-timed it in the net. It happened very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the goal came after lots of pressure from the Rocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had a lot of momentum in the third period but ran out of time to tie the game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kidney said players are bigger and stronger than in junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou have to score goals when the opportunities present themselves as it\u2019s not easy,\u201d said Kidney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMost goals are scored by attacking the net and often in the blue ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was in the right spot to get the rebound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”78″] MAIN PHOTO: Riley Kidney proudly shows off his first pro hockey goal puck with the Laval Rocket of the AHL. (Laval Rocket photo) LAVAL, Que.: He was in the right spot at the right time. That\u2019s how Enfield\u2019s Riley Kidney summed up scoring his first pro hockey goal with the Laval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[2759,196,390,3924,2661,1012],"class_list":["post-40630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-ahl","tag-east-hants","tag-enfield","tag-laval-rocket","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-riley-kidney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}