Top Ten Coolest NHL Goals
10) “The Forsberg”
The Forsberg was named after the Hall of Famer Peter Forsberg, a move in which a player’s body is going one way while, with one hand on the stick, he/she tucks the puck past the goalie on the far side. He executed it in the shootout of the gold medal game in the 1994 Winter Olympics, earning himself a spot on a Swedish postage stamp. Then he pulled it off in the NHL while with the Flyers in October 2006.
Many NHlers have attempted and perfected the move, but Vladimir Tarasenko’s version in a playoff game against the Wild in April 2015 is a special one, thanks to his incredible velocity during the sequence.- — — Wyshynski
9)Pavel Datsyuk Scores the Omark flip
Datsyuk might not have originated the flip goal, but he pulled it off in the best league in the world, and no one else has been able to before or since. The Jan. 17, 2010, shootout flip show was actually first pulled off by former Oilers draft pick Linus Omark, who did it while representing Sweden in international competition.
The move takes a ton of skill, patience and precision — — and a wee, little bit of arrogance. But when you’re The Magic Man, that’s all part of the package. Datsyuk was the first shooter in the shootout, in a game in the midst of a revived rivalry between Detroit and chicago, and he goes and drops that? Nor fair. — — Peters
8)Marek Malik goes between the legs
The goal will forever be epic because it includes an unlikely hero. Malik had zero goals on the 2005–06 season and just 27 career goals in the 488 NHL games. But during a 15-round shootout between the Capitals and Rangers on Nov. 26, 2005, it was New York’s defensive defenseman who deked out Washington goalie Olaf Kolzig with a slick, between-the-legs goal. It sent New Yorkers into a frenzy and is regarded as one of the best shootout goals ever. Plus it played a part in between-the-legs goals becoming almost common. — Kaplan
7)Sidney Crosby juggles and bats it home
The greatest athletes make it look easy. Perhaps, then , it was no surprise when Crosby effortlessly batted the puck to himself while it was in midair to score against the Canadians in March 2018. It was the first of three very similar goals that Crosby scored in a 10-game span, — — Wyshynski
6)Pavel Bure drops the puck to his skate
Bure was so far ahead of his time in so many ways, but the speed with which he played would dominate in any era, including the current one. The Russian Rocked wowed everyone with this goal against the Bruins in his first game back from one of his many injuries during the 1996–97 season.
Bure hits top speed ,blows past Hall of Fame defenseman Ray Bourque and, instead of also blowing past the goalie, freezes Scott Bailey by dropping the puck to his skate before continuing past, kicking it back to his stick and sliding it in, It’s goal unique to player of Bure’s speed, and that’s probably why we haven’t seen anything like it since(let’s see it , Connor McDavid). — — Peters
5)Denis Savard dekes past the entire team
Short-handed and from his own blue line, Savard skated toward Edmonton’s zone trying to buy time — — and ended up scoring one of the most memorable goals in Chicago Blackhawks history on Feb. 24th, 1988. Savard twirled and weaved around half of the Oilers on the ice. Seven-time All-Star defenseman Kevin Lowe was Savard’s final Victim as he broke a 3–3 tie with an off-balanced shot against Grant Fuhr. — — Kaplan
4)Jaromir Jagr
In Game 1 of the 1992 Final, Jagr scored on one of the greatest individual efforts in playoff history. He intercepted a clearing attempt by Brent Sutter, deked around Dirk Grahm, deked around a hapless Sutter, who tried to correct his error, and then around defenseman Frantisek Kucera before backhanding the puck past a diving Sutter — —completing his personal nightmare — — and past Hall of Famer Ed Belfour.
“oh, that was probably the greatest goal I’ve ever seen” Lemieux said after the game. — — Wyshynski
3) Mario Lemieux dekes while sliding
This has to be the first goal most people think of when they think of Lemieux. It came in Gabe 2 of the 1991 Stanley Cup Final, Mario’s first crack at the Cup, and signified all of the things that made him “Le Magnifique”. From the speed with which Lemieux gets through the natural zone to his Incredible stick work to get the puck through Shawn Chambers’ legs and avoid Jon Casey’s poke-check, it’s vintage Mario.
The Penguins went on to win their Stanley Cup that year, with Lemieux earing Conn Smythe honors with 12 points in the final and a highlight for his age. — — Peters
2) Andrei Svechnikov, Filip Forsberg pull off “The Michigan” lacrosse goal
In 1996, Mike Legg defied gravity by scoring a lacrosse goal for the University of Michigan. Since then, hockey players across all levels have tried it — — some successful, some not (not looking at you, Auston Matthews). It took 23 years for this to finally make it to the NHL. Once Carolina’s Svechnikov executed it against Calgary’s David Rittich in October 2019, the floodgates opened. Svechnikov then did it again ( leading some to call it “The Svech”), and Nashville’s Forsberg followed suite soon after.
Goalies everywhere are on noticed. The Problem is , if executed correctly, this move is nearly impossible to stop. — — Kaplan
1)Alex Ovechkin scores “The Goal” on his back
It was Jan. 16, 2006, and the legend of Ovechkin wasn’t even through chapter 1 yet. He was just a rookie, electrifying a post-lockout NHL, when Ovechkin scored what would henceforth be known as “The Goal” against the Coyotes. He collected the puck in the neutral zone, sped into the attacking zone and attempted a toe-drag in the slot. Instead his skate toe-picked, and he fell to the ice… while still controlling the puck as he rolled on his back . He then somehow hooked it for a shot that beat the goalie Brian Boucher.
Ovechkin would call it “lucky” and “ a beautiful goal”. Its greatness was so immediately accepted that fans clamored for the NHL to buy time during the year’s Super Bowl and run the goal as a commercial. Fourteen years later, many other chapter have been written in Ovechkin’s legend, but “The Goal” remains one of it’s singular moments. — — Wyshynski