Anthony DeAngelo, Nick Lappin, pair of former C.R. RoughRiders, score 1st NHL goals

CEDAR RAPIDS - A pair or former Cedar Rapids RoughRiders players scored their first National Hockey League goals on Tuesday night.

Forward Nick Lappin scored his first goal for the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night in a 3-2 win over Carolina. Lappin scored on a rebound that was reviewed before it was confirmed.

'It was a pretty unbelievable feeling,” said Lappin, 'I got a little nervous when they started reviewing it. I wasn't sure what was going to happen then.”

Lappin played for the Riders the entire 2009-2010 season and one game the following season before being traded to the Tri-City Storm. He played for Brown University from 2012 through 2016, then was signed by the New Jersey Devils.

The 24-year-old spent multiple seasons in the minor American Hockey League before his recall to New Jersey this season. He has a goal and three assists in six games.

Anthony DeAngelo, a defenseman, was the youngest player in the United States Hockey League at the time he played with the RoughRiders at age 15 in the 2010-11 season and became a first-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2014

DeAngelo was traded to the Arizona Coyotes and began the 2016-17 season with the Tucson Roadrunners of the American Hockey League. His first NHL game game was at Colorado, and DeAngelo scored a second-period goal into the top left-corner of the net in a 3-2 win for his team.

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