The Worst Shooters Among The Best Goal Scorers And Best Shooters Who Weren't Great Goal Scorers?

[DitchMarner]

Maybe Luc Robitaille for the former category? Not saying he was a bad shooter, but his scoring was more about instincts, anticipation, timing and going to the right areas than having a big shot or being a precision sniper. Possibly guys like Ciccarelli and Andreychuk as well (guys who feasted on garbage and were great at deflections). For a guy who has scored a ton of goals, Crosby's shot has never impressed me all that much. In his early years, I thought he had kind of a muffin shot.


Kessel was a very good but not quite great goal scorer in his prime. Somehow he never hit 40 goals in a season. Then again, he didn't have a great playmaker to set him up in Toronto, and while he had excellent snap and wrist shots, he hardly ever used his backhand and almost never took slapshots or one-timers.

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[MadLuke]

Marcel Dionne (someone with 730 goals....) in an interview said he did not had a goalscorer shot and had to create his goals a lot, could have been downplaying himself or just relative to the Lafleur-Bossy level of shots (that was a bit the sense it gave, that he had a shot below the greatest).

I remember Pierre Dagenais having quite the shots in a vaccum and could score a lot in the Q, AHL, Europe. Was harder in the nhl (outside the shootout), he has youtube goals montage without scoring 40 goals in that league.

 

[seventieslord]

Isn't Gretzky the answer here? The discrepancy between how did he was at scoring goals and how good he was at shooting, is probably the highest ever.

 

[Matsun]

Laine has a fantastic shot but isn’t a great goal scprer anymore.