Greatest slapshot of all-time
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I think Wayne Gretzky deserves to be on this list
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Ha. Even Gretz said he worked OT to have an average slapper. Most of his goals were not scored that way.
Raymond had a heat-seeking missle that easily won him multiple all'star game 4 targets in 4 corners of the net shooting.
But, please, Al takes the cake. He was jaw dropping with his shot from the point.
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It seems very obvious to me that MacInnis is number one. Power and accuracy and something that teams gameplanned against. Curious about who two would be.
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And Kariya will beat all his records... Gretzky is one of those great enough to be humble person and if he is in the top 10 most slapshot goals in nhl history, that would not surprise anyone.
Kovalchuck was an other one with quite the spectacular, specially his one timer slapshot.
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Hull/MacInnis/Hull/Ovechkin/Stamkos gotta be up there if you’re looking for all of: trigger, power, and effectiveness.
But Gretzky needs to be up there if we’re asking who has the best snapshot purely for putting the puck in the net. His shot wasn’t blistering, but he had some mustard on it, and his release timing and accuracy are off the charts.
But Gretzky needs to be up there if we’re asking who has the best snapshot purely for putting the puck in the net. His shot wasn’t blistering, but he had some mustard on it, and his release timing and accuracy are off the charts.
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He'd be my number two, he did do it longer for sure, but also had rules and sticks that helped in that
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Lots of great slappers....
First, there are many guys with great slapshots, but who didn't use it a whole lot...like Mark Howe, Esa Tikkanen, and Alexander Mogilny. These guys had other great shots that they used a lot more often. Actually, you could say Lemieux and Bossy too. Great slapshots, but they scored in a variety of ways.
The defensemen: guys like Orr and Lapointe had very effective slapshots. Larson, Doug Wilson, the aforementioned Howe, MacInnis had howitzers in the '80s....many others, like Bourque, Chelios, etc. Right up to current times with Evan Bouchard. Lots of guys in between. There have been progressively more good shooters over the past 50 years.
The classic one-timers of recent years - Ovechkin, Stamkos, Pastrnak, Draisaitl, etc. And of course these guys can do more than one-timers too.
Other forwards through the years....Bobby Hull, Jacques Lemaire, Bill Barber, Kent Nilsson, Brett Hull, Paul Kariya, Stephane Richer, and many players who didn't score as much, like Brian Rolston.
First, there are many guys with great slapshots, but who didn't use it a whole lot...like Mark Howe, Esa Tikkanen, and Alexander Mogilny. These guys had other great shots that they used a lot more often. Actually, you could say Lemieux and Bossy too. Great slapshots, but they scored in a variety of ways.
The defensemen: guys like Orr and Lapointe had very effective slapshots. Larson, Doug Wilson, the aforementioned Howe, MacInnis had howitzers in the '80s....many others, like Bourque, Chelios, etc. Right up to current times with Evan Bouchard. Lots of guys in between. There have been progressively more good shooters over the past 50 years.
The classic one-timers of recent years - Ovechkin, Stamkos, Pastrnak, Draisaitl, etc. And of course these guys can do more than one-timers too.
Other forwards through the years....Bobby Hull, Jacques Lemaire, Bill Barber, Kent Nilsson, Brett Hull, Paul Kariya, Stephane Richer, and many players who didn't score as much, like Brian Rolston.
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Doug Wilson definitely should have been an option. I get why Iafrate is up there, but he couldn't hit the net nearly as much as the other guys, regardless of how hard he could shoot, give his spot to Wilson.
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I personally said Bobby Hull, but it was really a toss up between him and MacInnis. You can pick either one of them for different reasons but I suppose you could say MacInnis is #1 simply based on the fact his game revolved around the slapper more than Hull's. Hull had that legend of terrifying goalies without masks with his shot. The 118mph shot, the fact he even scared his own goalie Glenn Hall in practice. But you know, even as I think about it more it probably is MacInnis. Only because Hull's game was much more than a dangerous slapper. Not that MacInnis was only about his shot, but his offense was driven from his slapper more than Hull's I would say. MacInnis had such a hard slapper as we all know, but more importantly it was very accurate. Very low, very hard, very much used on the power play, and struck fear into goalies. And somehow he always got it away quick. But still did it while unleashing a howitzer each time.
By the way, here he is scoring on Kelly Hrudey on a penalty shot in the 1990 playoffs. He didn't use a slap shot, but I am telling you for sure that the fear of his slap shot was definitely going through Hrudey's head during this time and I'll bet would have with Hasek in 1998 had MacInnis been one of the shooters.
By the way, here he is scoring on Kelly Hrudey on a penalty shot in the 1990 playoffs. He didn't use a slap shot, but I am telling you for sure that the fear of his slap shot was definitely going through Hrudey's head during this time and I'll bet would have with Hasek in 1998 had MacInnis been one of the shooters.
