NHL debuts don’t get much more picture perfect than the one Parker Ford got to enjoy.

As fate would have it, the Rhode Island product suited up in his first NHL game against the Boston Bruins — the team he grew up rooting for.

That would have been memorable enough, but Ford added to the enjoyment for himself and those in attendance at TD Garden when he scored on Joonas Korpisalo as part of a four-goal third period outburst in a 6-2 victory for the Jets.

After Ford had gone through his post-game interviews and took a few moments to try and let the moment soak in, he was serenaded by a large group of his supporters inside the arena before he got on the bus with his teammates.

“They were chanting my name as I was coming out,” Ford recalled during a one-on-one interview during Jets trainin

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