who scored the first goal of the 2012 nhl season

Justin Abdelkader lit the lamp 8 times in 2011-12.

	NAME	G	SEASON	TM	GP	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Justin Abdelkader J. Abdelkader	8	2011-12	DET	81	14	22	+4	62	0	0	0	0	1	0	121	6.6	239	452	52.9	148	42	16	14	12:19
2	Luke Adam L. Adam	10	2011-12	BUF	52	10	20	-6	14	0	3	0	0	0	0	89	11.2	114	259	44.0	26	15	24	16	12:24
3	Craig Adams C. Adams	5	2011-12	PIT	82	13	18	-6	34	0	0	0	3	0	0	76	6.6	132	292	45.2	162	45	13	7	11:17
4	Andrew Alberts A. Alberts	2	2011-12	VAN	44	1	3	+4	40	0	0	0	0	2	0	19	10.5	0	0		91	39	13	16	14:18
5	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	27	2011-12	OTT	75	32	59	+16	18	7	7	3	1	4	2	191	14.1	20	46	43.5	52	31	50	58	18:57
6	Akim Aliu A. Aliu	2	2011-12	CGY	2	1	3	+3	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	66.7	0	0		6	0	0	1	11:02
7	Bryan Allen B. Allen	1	2011-12	CAR	82	13	14	-1	76	0	0	0	1	1	0	87	1.1	0	0		111	188	22	36	19:10
8	Cody Almond C. Almond	1	2011-12	MIN	10	0	1	-5	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	14.3	25	58	43.1	15	8	3	2	10:13
9	Karl Alzner K. Alzner	1	2011-12	WSH	82	16	17	+12	29	0	1	0	0	0	0	56	1.8	0	0		74	139	18	48	20:52
10	Mike Angelidis M. Angelidis	1	2011-12	TBL	6	0	1	-1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	12.5	4	7	57.1	6	2	3	1	6:30
11	Artem Anisimov A. Anisimov	16	2011-12	NYR	79	20	36	+12	34	4	0	1	0	1	0	132	12.1	161	345	46.7	75	46	37	14	15:24
12	Nik Antropov N. Antropov	15	2011-12	WPG	69	20	35	0	42	4	6	0	0	0	0	95	15.8	283	652	43.4	94	41	25	23	16:31
13	Colby Armstrong C. Armstrong	1	2011-12	TOR	29	2	3	-8	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	7.1	7	18	38.9	37	5	6	7	9:19
14	Jason Arnott J. Arnott	17	2011-12	STL	72	17	34	+13	26	6	8	0	0	3	0	142	12.0	387	769	50.3	24	13	17	11	14:05
15	Arron Asham A. Asham	5	2011-12	PIT	64	11	16	-5	76	0	0	0	0	0	0	49	10.2	6	11	54.5	95	8	13	3	9:14
16	Cameron Atkinson C. Atkinson	7	2011-12	CBJ	27	7	14	+1	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	66	10.6	0	1	0.0	23	17	15	9	15:23
17	Adrian Aucoin A. Aucoin	2	2011-12	PHX	64	7	9	+14	42	1	0	0	0	0	0	92	2.2	0	0		97	67	26	17	20:15
18	Keith Aucoin K. Aucoin	3	2011-12	WSH	27	8	11	+4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	21	14.3	57	121	47.1	10	7	12	7	11:04
19	Sean Avery S. Avery	3	2011-12	NYR	15	0	3	+2	21	0	0	0	0	1	0	15	20.0	0	3	0.0	10	1	4	3	7:01
20	Anton Babchuk A. Babchuk	2	2011-12	CGY	32	8	10	+2	6	1	2	0	0	1	0	48	4.2	0	0		17	48	9	12	14:29
21	David Backes D. Backes	24	2011-12	STL	82	30	54	+15	101	8	9	2	1	4	0	234	10.3	658	1,353	48.6	226	72	50	22	20:00
22	Mikael Backlund M. Backlund	4	2011-12	CGY	41	7	11	-13	16	2	1	0	0	2	0	85	4.7	225	496	45.4	25	19	29	17	15:23
23	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	14	2011-12	WSH	42	30	44	-4	24	3	16	0	0	4	1	95	14.7	353	691	51.1	31	25	28	18	19:10
24	Sven Baertschi S. Baertschi	3	2011-12	CGY	5	0	3	+2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	30.0	0	0		5	0	3	0	11:08
25	Josh Bailey J. Bailey	13	2011-12	NYI	80	19	32	-10	32	1	3	3	0	1	0	104	12.5	323	736	43.9	64	35	62	39	15:13