Greatest slapshot of all-time

[Staniowski]

Gaston Gingras had a monster of a slapper

Yes, he did. Gingras was quite a specimen, but his skill was never matched by his career

 

[Staniowski]

Undoubtedly Clark's wrist shot was the most lethal in his arsenal but although he didn't use it as often, his slap shot was a BOOMER! The shot that knocked Cujo's hemlet off is his most infamous, but throughout years of watching Leafs games from that era, I marveled every time Clark launched off a slapper. Speaking of, LeClair's slap shot might not have been the most accurate but it was an absolute ROCKET! Marvelous!

Yes, Wendel is along the same lines as Mark Howe and Mogilny....each of them were very well-known for shots other than slapshots, and none of them used the slapper very often, but each had a really great slapshot.

 

[BattleEquivalent8265]

If I needed a slap shot to decapitate to opposing goalie, I'm going with MacInnis.
If I needed a slap shot to win the game, 100% Gretzky.
Then Bobby & Brett.
Ovechkin would round out my top 5.

 

[Golden_Jet]

If I needed a slap shot to decapitate to opposing goalie, I'm going with MacInnis.

That’s exactly what Bobby Hull was known for, on his first shot of the game, he went head hunting to scare the goalie.

 

[The Panther]

I posted this years ago, but I'll share it again now...
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(from Hockey Digest in mid1988-89):

 

[VanIslander]

While Gretz didn't have a great slapshot, he did release one of his greatest slappers when he was a St. Louis Blue.

 

[tabness]

I posted this years ago, but I'll share it again now...
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(from Hockey Digest in mid1988-89):

Nice to see the great Paul Coffey get so much love here, he probably should be an option too. Didn't need to use it as much since he was up on the play so much and had so many weapons, but when he did it was real nice.

And it wasn't just the set play point shot usually on the powerplay, he could really take a beautiful slapper off the rush that only a few select forwards could match.

 

[Stephen]

Aesthetically, there's something to be said about those top corner 90s slapshots paired with a little goalie attempting to make a windmill glove save while also trying to duck out of the way. Chef's kiss as they say, and is a completely different animal to a modern slap shot on a big blocking goalie.

 

[gretzkyoilers]

I posted this years ago, but I'll share it again now...
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(from Hockey Digest in mid1988-89):

Nice! Interesting how Coffey and Bourque keep getting mentioned. Both were so great at so many things that one of their strengths gets overlooked when looking back in a thread like this...

 

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Ilya Kovalchuk

 

[MadLuke]

Ilya Kovalchuk

Such a spectacular one:


Made the post ring a lot of the time.

Brett Hull ainec

What is nice here with that montage you show, it is with someone that scored so much it can be made with
1) Just play that end up with a goal, lot of player have a lot of spectacular plays that end no where
2) The collection of legendary jersey he is scoring goal against and many in big games.

 

[Minar]

Gretzky had the greatest non one timer slapshot imo. Who scored more goals with a slapshot (not one timer)?

 

[Davenport]

Somebody has to mention Andy Bathgate. As a kid in Winnipeg - spending hours a day in the long winters working on his shot - he developed both a terrific slap shot and a wrist shot which he used more often because of his pinpoint accuracy with it.

 

[carjackmalone]

Gretzky greatest non one timer slapshot. Who scored more goals with a slapshot (not one timer)?

 

[MXD]

Sheldon Souray still holds the record for PP goals scored by a D-Men in a single because specifically because of his slapshot.

Which actually became great AFTER he had undergone surgery.

 

[Hippasus]

 

[Nerowoy nora tolad]

Im sure it would have looked amazing if Id put my contacts in that day

 

[JackSlater]

Sheldon Souray and Marc-Andre Bergeron had really good ones as far as lesser known Oilers players go. Souray also had wrist surgery (01-02 with the Canadiens) before coming to Edmonton and still managed to have a deadly point shot.

MA Bergeron is one of my favourites because his shot made him ~10 million dollars. There was nothing to get him into or keep him in the NHL outside of his slap shot.

 

[JianYang]

Sheldon Souray and Marc-Andre Bergeron had really good ones as far as lesser known Oilers players go. Souray also had wrist surgery (01-02 with the Canadiens) before coming to Edmonton and still managed to have a deadly point shot.

Souray scored 26 goals in 06/07, and many of them were just devastating slapshots. He didn't even need a screen.... he was just beating goalies clean.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

not one of the greatest of all time but sami salo, the finnish macinnis, deserves a mention

if he’d ever had an andrei markov or tomas kaberle QBing for him, he could have had a souray or mccabe season. he didn’t have the playmaking ability of his own to put up 20-30 PP assists like those guys did in their peak seasons, but he definitely could have flirted with a 20 goal season with the right partner on the point.

as you can see, when he got open, his slapshot was unstoppable.