Two of Bobby Carpenter’s children ... He salvaged the puck-sized divot the shot took out of the new Home Depot shed, autographed it, and gave it to Alex. “I had to do that,’’ he said.

She' d angle. She knew where the puck was going to go. There was a lot of stuff that she learned early that you didn' t have to teach her." Bobby Carpenter on the Washington Capitals in the 1980s.

As a player then a coach for New Jersey Devils, Bobby Carpenter would pick up his daughter ... "Well, let him touch the puck then," Bobby would say. These days, Alex is much better at sharing ...