What's the Greatest Goal of the Century?

[Carbooja]

Don't pick one, pick your favorite one and let's all enjoy the highlights.

 

[myperbixhurts]

Ovi’s goal

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Definitely the Ovi one. It's iconic.

 

[Master P]

The answer is Ovi's but this is my personal favorite.

Absolutely filthy.

 

[HarrySPlinkett]

It’s the Ovechkin goal.

Nobody has ever scored a goal quite like that before or since.

Everything else is variations on a theme.

 

[Goose]

Expected this to be a common shoutout. Out of curiosity - does the fact that Boucher entirely forgets how to play his position factor into the way you view this goal at all?

No, it's purely the athleticism of being on your back and having the awareness to score with pretty much one hand. It's one of the greatest sports plays of all time, period, in my books, up there with Beckham's fingertips catch, Carter posterizing that European player, or Ibrahimovic's long-range bicycle kick.

 

[hamzarocks]

Crosby golden goal saved canada

We almost had to sell the country for $1 to the mericans if we lost that game

 

[Neutrinos]

I agree with this as the greatest:

The problem I have with this goal is that Ovechkin actually lost the puck on his initial move, and luckily for him, it bounces off the skate of the defender to find its way back to him

I think the greatest goal should be absent that much luck

 

[BB79]

and not THIS century.

Century= 100 years. By your definition this thread should be locked until year 2100 since there's still over 75 years of hockey left to play.

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Century= 100 years. By your definition this thread should be locked until year 2100 since there's still over 75 years of hockey left to play.

It literally says “21st century” in the OP. So greatest goals of this century so far

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

The problem I have with this goal is that Ovechkin actually lost the puck on his initial move, and luckily for him, it bounces of the skate of the defender to find its way back to him

I think the greatest goal should be absent that much luck

Maybe you like this one better then? 0 luck involved, except for Komisarek’s terrible pass to Hamrlik to create the opportunity to score a world class goal.

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Depending on how you interpret this it’s either Crosbys golden goal or Ovechkins goal. Which is very fitting. Great memories for me. Crosby for the high pressure moment and ovi for sheer skill and once in a lifetime type feeling

 

[EdJovanovski]

 

[BB79]

It literally says “21st century” in the OP. So greatest goals of this century so far

I don't know what you're reading but the title of the thread is "What's the Greatest Goal of the Century?"

I'm going to save my vote for a goal that will be scored in 2084.

For this almost-quarter century, Ovechkin has it in the bag

 

[80s Kid]

 

[Straight Fire]

I agree with this as the greatest:

This is the one that my mind thought of immediately.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I don't know what you're reading but the title of the thread is "What's the Greatest Goal of the Century?"

If you read the first post of the thread, it says IN BOLD "which goal (or goals) would you nominate for greatest of the 21st century?"

It's not ambiguous.

 

[BB79]

If you read the first post of the thread, it says IN BOLD "which goal (or goals) would you nominate for greatest of the 21st century?"

It's not ambiguous.

Yes, and I was going off the title of the thread which wasn't so specific. My bad.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Ovechkin’s is iconic, but when I think “greatest” I think of Crosby’s golden goal.

Makes sense that those two would be fighting it out.

 

[umma gumma]

It’s the Ovechkin goal.

Nobody has ever scored a goal quite like that before or since.

Everything else is variations on a theme.

 

[TheAngryHank]

A tough guy scoring a Stanley cup clinching goal..
And the call make it the greatest ever..

Like the call on this one

 

[Lawzy]

Obvious bias.

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

This is when Marty was far and away the best goalie in the league. The context gets missed when in all time discussions like this.

 

[Hank Plank]

Regular season goals don't count.