Thursday’s regular-season finale between the Calgary Flames and the Los Angeles Kings might have been meaningless in the standings, but three youngsters managed to make the game a memorable feat regardless.

It all started when Flames call-up Sam Morton scored his squad’s second goal of the evening.

He joined the rush alongside Ryan Lomberg and Dryden Hunt, and buried the puck on a tic-tac-toe pass for his first NHL goal.

The celebration continued just over two minutes later, when fellow rookie Zayne Parekh — also playing in his NHL debut — tipped a Mikael Backlund shot past Kings goalie David Rittich for his first marker in the big league. The 19-year-old became the sixth-youngest defenceman in league history to score in his debut.

Two teammates scoring in their first NHL game hadn’t happened since 2003, when Mike Zigomanis and Tomas Kurka did it for the Hurricanes. It was also the first time in franchise history that two Flames teammates accomplished the feat.

But the youngsters weren’t done.

Kings forward Taylor Ward got in on the action in his NHL debut as well, scoring his team’s only marker on the power play by burying a rebound from Jordan Spence.

With three rookies scoring, it marked just the fourth time in league history that three different players recorded their first NHL goals in the same debut game — the last instance coming in 2002.

Thanks to the Kings’ goal, Morton’s marker stood as the game-winner.

The Flames drafted Parekh with their first-round selection at the 2024 Draft, and the undrafted Morton was signed as a free agent in March 2024. Morton spent parts of the past two seasons in the AHL, where he’s posted 25 goals and 52 points in 82 games. Parekh, meanwhile, made OHL history, joining Bobby Orr as one of the only defencemen to record multiple 30-goal seasons.