Who is the Shootout King? Is it still Datsyuk? Or one of Kane, Toews, Oshie or Barkov?

[banks]

Toews was the GOAT before he even played an NHL game. Here he is scoring 3 times in 3 different ways during the WJC. They had strange shootout rules where a player could shoot multiple times, instead of the NHL rule where you can only shoot once until you use every player on the bench.

 

[Summer Rose]

Toews was the GOAT before he even played an NHL game. Here he is scoring 3 times in 3 different ways during the WJC. They had strange shootout rules where a player could shoot multiple times, instead of the NHL rule where you can only shoot once until you use every player on the bench.

IIHF shootout rules have been like that as far back as I can remember. Once you go through the initial 3 or 5 shooters who have to be different, you can pick anyone once it goes to any extra round(s) even if they’ve already shot. That’s how the USA beat Russia in the 2014 Olympic quarterfinal. The tongue in cheek phrasing I’ve seen a lot is that we got past them because we “spammed TJ Oshie.”

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Nobody these days as even when they score they are incredibly boring goals for the most part. Datsyuk always made it interesting and fun to watch, goal or not

 

[JianYang]

I’m drawing a blank..who was that ~3rd line guy from 10-15 years ago that had an impossible to stop forehand to backhand shot?

Jussi jokinen had a move that seemed to work alot although I barely recall what that was.... and that's probably going back even longer.

Gionta was an excellent shootout guy up until his early 30s being around 40-45%, but i think he dropped off alot in his latter years.

 

[BHawk21]

Toews the Goat. McDavid Barkov and Robertson gunna gain ground on that quickly.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Success rate is fine, but Datsyuk is the only one that I'd pause the TV if I was leaving the room. He wins.

 

[Erikfromfin]

 

[Mandar]

wasnt Kris Letang really good in shootouts?

 

[ViD]

Panarin is by far the best of all active players

 

[Pieck]

I got to watch and enjoy this a lot so I say it with love...

but his move really was "what if I fake a shot like I know what I'm doing and virtually all of my body parts just go in different directions until neither of us fully know what I'm doing and then I try to score from the slot"

and hey, it worked, his fake shot is relatively unique in how far back he gets it, but I'd say a lot of goalies would have fared better just by calling his bluff and making him take the original shot by barely playing it and it's a hilarious miracle that he kept doing it

Wow this is actually hilariously accurate. Watching the video again now his movements look so clunky lol

 

[hirawl]

Mikko Koivu had one move and everybody knew it and it still worked amazingly well.

 

[pezpunk]

Wow this is actually hilariously accurate. Watching the video again now his movements look so clunky lol

i like this video, because it shows Joe B and Locker joking around about the move they know is coming:



I just wish they showed the end of the game too -- after falling on his ass from the fake shot, then whiffing while trying to bat the puck away, Tim Thomas storms off the ice and then falls flat on his face on his way to the tunnel.

 

[islesfan3913]

If we’re basing it on numbers alone, I think Toews, Oshie, and Nielsen are in a class of their own. All three have 100+ attempts with roughly a 47% success rate which is well ahead of everyone with a substantial amount of attempts.