Bobby hull was the ultimate example for the hawks

Watch the video all the Devils goals 2022-2023 Watch Doug Hamilton Jasper Brat Zetterland, holtz etc. not just slapshots but the more difficult one timer slapshots ... I didn't count but its over 20 percent I believ

As a Hawks fan I hate to admit this, but one of the best/most memorable slap shots for me was the one Stevie Y made in double OT against the Blues. He put an absolute laser high to the far side past John Casey from the blue line. Watch the replay at roughly the 3 45 minute mark of this video and you'll really appreciate what a snipe this shot was. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nGiDmICpsYR5qZs.html

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This is a bit sad because it is so silly and so cool to watch like it is a visible violent spectacle a clean slapshot 😅 but the newer drag-shot style is soo efficient and fast 😳

Yup first two that came to my mind

Funny I thought of this exact thing the other day and low & behold this vid lol... But oh yes, the two "AL's" will be in the Top 5 for sure!!!

@@franciscavallaro6356 Mine too.

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Al MacInnis was my favorite.

He'd also hover with space & time with a high windup, then sort of bring the stick down 30 degrees then hesitate again, then either deliver a slap pass or launch a bomb (his slapper had underrated velocity). In the 2-3 seconds he'd have glided 30-40 degrees of angle on the net that the goalie would be struggling to shuffle fast enough to keep up with him and still watch the pass option, so when he let a hard shot go they'd really struggle with it

Mike Vernon is still looking for one shot . . .

Gretzky didn’t have a great slap shot, he just used it a lot because he had an even worse wrist shot.

@@jmadratz why do you say that?…have you actually seen him play?…or is it the grainy old video footage from the 80’s and 90’s?

@@jmadratz Right...Imagine how many goals he could've scored if he was any good.

That's an excellent point. I remember watching Joe Sakic's wrist shot in the 90s and early 2000s and how quickly he released it with accuracy and mustard on it. It seems like guys now all have that skill and the better sticks just amplify that. I also think goaltenders are too good if they commit to the shot. Without the element of potentially passing, they get aggressive and cut off the angles quickly. Plus, these goaltenders today seem to be much bigger guys.

​@@seethe313Goalies have grown bigger statistically, it's not only an impression.

@@seethe313 the average height of goalies is around 6'2", with the shortest at 5'11", and the tallest at 6'6"

@@longlifetometal1995 But goalie gear has become a lot less bulky to compensate.

And perhaps the Bendy sticks that help increase the speed of a wrist shot or not as good for using on slapshots. So perhaps the wrist shot speed has gone up in the slapshot speed has gone down

Hopefully Boeser can do the same

April 26th 1994, One of the best slap shots I remember, Game 6 against Calgary in Overtime, Geoff Courtnall coming in all alone against Trevor Kidd & just buried it! Great squad, Great memories, Go Canucks Go!!

From 2010-2012 the Sedins really peaked. It was beautiful to watch. I don't think we'll ever see twins lead a sports team with such insane chemistry like that in sports ever again. Such a rare thing.

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@@coryryder9070 Mad love for Boston! Only time I was there people were great, terrific scenery, especially the Cheers bar, Norm Peterson was my favourite on the show! Yep! Let's definitely skip any Bruins talk though!!

Ever heard of Shea Weber?

No. I’m sure every hockey fan has never heard of Shea Weber.

Very true, with modern sticks there`s so much power ins snap, wrist and 2 point shots, that you simply don`t need to wind it up that much anymore.

The purpose of the Slap shot is to get your whole body into the shot arms shoulders chest core legs of course the stick will bend. Yes the stick will bend with a wrist or snap but you don't get all those muscle groups full strength together mainly arms and one leg for the snap / wrist

Yeah that may be the result of a slap shot but it isn't the function. Especially during the wooden stick era's. Those sticks didn't flex much at all. Those shots were pure power shots done by the shooter not the stick. A proper slapshot will have more velocity and speed then any snap or wrister ever will regardless of the stick.

Ova is still lethal at an age where even most Ironman retire. It is truly an art.

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Yeah!! And the following goal. Love your logo

@@ThePerpetualStudent RIP the fellas

That was so lovely to see!! I wish Parayko would practice that and use it more often. More often than not he misses the net by a county. At least he made it count that night.

@@trinawhitener7753 these days I’d like to see parayko do literally anything besides timid stick handling, avoiding all physical contact, and turning over the puck

@@TheOriginalTuhat FUCK YES!!! THANK YOU!! He’s the softest big guy in the league. Or throw the puck over the glass for a delay of game penalty. I hate to say he’s become my least favorite player on the Blues because he’s so soft and just not that great defensively. Frequently a minus. I think he only got that ridiculous deal for sentimental reasons.

Kuch makes slap passes perfectly

@@dronlaa there's a few players that do it well and do it often and I love to see it.

100% agree, but surely you know that what is truly going extinct are UKposts videos without clickbait titles. ;)

Great point. I scoured the Internet trying to find slapshot statistics specifically over the last 3 years also but couldn’t find any hard data like I did from 2012-2020. If anyone does have them, I’d love to see it. The inclination is to believe that decrease has continued but I don’t know for certain. Either way, I thought it was interesting to dive into why elite players in the game often opt for a snap/wrist… and so, that led us to this video lol

I LOVE the slap pass especially on the PP. use the "im going to shoot" to your advantage. but I think again with how fast the game is and how quickly guys are getting challenged on the rush, blue line, etc., im sure they've been taught to get the shots off quick. plus stick technology allowing a good wrist shot to be almost as fast as a clapper with better accuracy too.

All the ones you mention were great, but the King of Slapshots has to still be Al MacInnis. No one was as fast, hard or accurate as Al when it came to blasting it from the point. Heck, that guy's slapper was deadly enough he could score them from centre ice and still have it be one the goalie had little chance on. Who else in NHL history can claim that?

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wrong. His Dad Bobby, better yet, his uncle Dennis Hull. Both played for the Blackhawks. Look it up. Brett would agree.

Yeah his shot was legendary.....and he used a wooden stick. I remember reading an article about him in like 1989. At that point of season he had put like five guys on to the injured list because they got hit by his slap shot. Most of them were opponents but there were a few of his own guys I guess who are standing in front of the net trying to screen the goalie. That's pretty brave. I also remember back in the day playing hockey video games and he had an absolute blast even on those. Him and Ray bourque.

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Macinnis is up there also, he had a brutal shot with his old wood stick.

I seem to recall at least one instance where Chara almost did kill a man with a shot...

Can’t forget about shea weber guys were scared to block his slap shot from the point

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Yeah and the next one he'd leave right on the ice

Looking at him you'd never suspect he had a bullet like he did

Definitely wasn't the most feared that was shae Webbers and it had to do with the height. His shot was consistently just above the toes to just over the top of the skates where you have minimal padding. He was not allowed to use it in drills where there was a teammate between him and the net. Now if we are talking feared by goalies then ya the Al's take the cake no doubt about it. Wish they could have tried today's sticks they would no joke injure goalies on a regular basis.

@@joeshmow1583 Al MacInnis once clapped one through Jocelyn Thibault's glove, breaking his ring finger in the process.

@@10.11.9 Shae Webber literally blew a hole in the net in the Olympics. They went back to video review after iggy swore it went in. I would not have wanted to block either guys shot lol

@@joeshmow1583 Ditto. Big Shea was just so damn strong. Tough way to end a great career.

The Finnish MacInnis!

Speaking of Canucks, Elias Pettersson is one of the best new school kids with a snapshot. He's got a great bomb off the rush.

balls of steel!

Best one-timer of all time

Hands down correct. I lived down the street from bobby hull when he played for the Hawks.

what about zdeno chara

Cap... It's Martin Frk but Weber is likely more consistent

@@Filip-xu5vb True

@@WillTBDud I said ONE OF, not THE best

Souray fear a lot of player at his prime on power play with Markov

Martin Frk would like a word

Al MacInnis laughs in your face with a wooden stick

But only one is almost 7ft tall BIG Z

The goalie gets a piece of them a lot of the time too. His shot is remarkable because its so powerful, that combined with the curve on his stick, just creates this knuckling puck that goalies have a hard time reading in the air due the unique and unpredictable trajectory at the speed its traveling. So even the pucks the goalies get a piece of, it often trickles past them. I really don't know if we are ever going to see a player like Ovi again.

Youre talking about a guy who just ended a 17 game goalless streak lol

Yeah so many NHL guys have really hard slapshots especially the real big strong dudes like Weber. Didn't Sheldon Souray have a pretty hard slap shot too? Sorry if I misspelled their names

As a hockey fan in general, I loved seeing byfuglien, weber, and ovi rip some solid slappers

Ovi's shot for sure is lethal, but I'd define his as more of a one-timer, rather than a traditional slap shot. A slap shot is when you have possession of the puck already, wind up, and let it go. Ovi's shot gets fed to him, he never has actual possession of it before he winds up.

they should make a new award called the ovi that's awarded to the player with the most disregard to others safety

@@wormsonline9507 Ovi shoots hard and hits hard!

Has Ovechkin ever sent a puck through a glove, broken a finger and scored a goal with a slap shot? No? That would be Al MacInnis. The true king of the slap shot. Ovechkin has nothing on him as far as slappers are concerned.

@@trinawhitener7753 And MacInnis used a wood stick! Imagine his shot if he had a composite ….

I also appreciate the non-clickbait-y titles!

people forget though that ovi only started doing that half way thru his career. he was originally known for being a guy to skate down the whole ice and find some way to score through sheer force of will. but then teams learned how to play against that and he had two down years and struggled before discovering this new way which people all know him as doing. he wasn't really known for his slap shot in the early days

Fear the skullet!

When you hit the goalie you also create rebounds and since slap shots bounce further, the goalie has less chance of recovering it, possibly allowing the shooter or his teammates to jump on the rebound..

Well unless you're Ovi apparently... Gretzy was such a smart player smh. GOAT of any player in the history of any sports league ever, no doubt.

I totally agree with that statement. As hard of a slap shot as I had, I hardly ever scored goals on it because once you wind up the goalie comes out, cuts down the angle and people try to stand in front of it or get a stick in the lane. When I used to play goalie, which wasn't very often it was just a fill in but I would always come out and cut down the angle whenever I saw somebody winding up

As someone just getting into hockey, could you explain the method you’re talking about re: coming out (of the crease maybe ???) cut down the angle(putting yourself where the puck is likely to go?) @@tommywallbanger

Imagine him with one of these new synthetic sticks... lol MacInnis also had a really long stick... which is good for defending but it might make it trickier for shooting.

Not many of us still around that remember Goldsworthy 👍🏼😎

@@dourmoose Bobby Hull or Goldsworthy are the obvious picks for me, too. One of my most cherished memories from my youth is Dan Kelly calling "a cannonading drive by Goldsworthy" on a CBS Sunday afternoon broadcast. If I see or hear the word slapshot, though, the first thought that pops into my head is "Bobby Hull".

Al MacInnis was the OG

Brett Hull doesn't need a power play unlike Ovi to score...

@@bradr539 Hull is 3rd over all with PPGs. Only 45 less than Ovi.

@@bradr539 All-time even strength goals: Alex Ovechkin - 518 and counting. Brett Hull - 456.

@@davidreynolds6718 And that gap widens even further when you consider era adjusted statistics.

He could throw some pretty nasty hip checks too. Another lost art.

I remember trading for him in NHL video games back then and liking him a lot

Nah it’s Happy Gilmore

At the slapshot only

Best at blocking shots

Thank you, go caps

Bobby Hull

That's one Bobby or story I've never heard. I was born in 73 so he was a little bit before my time. I heard a lot of great stories about him, but never that he had that snapshot. Mostly hear about his skating

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Good example with LeClair! Also good example was when he faced Lidstrom and Murphy in the Finals with how it can be neutralized. They would get sticks out and poke the puck away quickly when they'd wind up.

Man, I'm a flyers fan and totally forgot about John LeClair's slapshot but he didn't use a slap shot much. He was usually in front of the net (with defenseman that couldn't move him cross-checking him in the back) or cycling down deep. But yeah he really had a Canon. Didn't use it much. I used to play, I forget what video game. It was back in the day and even he had a cannon on that thing. Probably NHL '99. There's a lot of guys like that that have a really hard slap shot but don't use it much, especially the guys that are grinders and do all the hard work in front of the net like John leclair. But I mean as big and strong as he was, he should have a hard slap shot. That guy was an ox

I think that's a shortsighted "win now, develop later" mindset

This type of maximization of perfection is killing hockey. Its a shame that many youth coaches seek to remove all individuality and personality from young players

Ouch from STL. It was an absolute bomb.

Do you think the new sticks might also be inclined to give less control over the slapshot? Like, maybe because they allow you to get so much power on a wrist or snapshot, perhaps it gets too out of control when you do the full windup?

It's not less control. It is just almost no difference in power unless if your a defensemen with a high flex stick. Hard to justify using a slapshot when you can have a quicker release wrist/snap shot with the same power. @@seethe313

Yeah I'm wondering the same thing. I've never used one of the new carbon shaft sticks. I mean when I played I used a wooden one piece stick. Maybe because I'm cheap and didn't want to spend the money on the carbon fiber or even back in the day aluminum shaft. My whole stick cost less than one of those replacement blades for either aluminum or carbon fiber. But I was wondering if the new shafts give less accuracy on the slapshot? I used to always bring like three sticks with me in case I broke one and this one guy was like man. You must have a million of those things at your house I was like. Yeah I do. I always like the Jagr model. I had a pretty hard slap shot and I just wondered if using the other sticks would give you more pop on your shot. I did try a carbon fiber once but I went with the real stiff one because I didn't want to break it and that thing had no flex whatsoever. It had less flex than the wooden stick. My carbon fiber stick days were just a phase

The flex of the stick is actually a significant factor in getting good power in a slapshot. The flex of the stick allows it to load up like a spring and then release that stored energy, flinging the puck faster than the player is able to swing the stick. To maximise that power you do need to match the stiffness of your stick with how much force you're going to be putting into your shot of course, so guys using a 70 flex are gonna have a harder time firing big clappers, but they chose that flex because it suits their playstyle, they didn't adapt their playstyle to suit their stick. I would wager the flexiness of composite sticks are what allow smaller and lighter guys like Elias Petterson can match shot velocity with much bigger and stronger players.

I believe Ovechkin uses a stiffer stick on powerplays for this purpose. I'm sure a lot of powerplay triggermen do this

We do seem to use that a lot.... eh? lol

To be fair, I've heard this my whole sports career in lacrosse and basketball as well.

I just made a comment about Sheldon Souray. Somebody brought up Shea Weber and immediately thought about Sheldon. I loved Owen Nolan. I only saw the end of his career but I don't really remember him having that awesome slap shot but I was young.

@@tommywallbanger Cool! Look at old goals of his in the Nordiques/Sharks and you'll see what I mean.

The gold standard for slapshot power

That guy can absolutely wire one

I never tried one of those new carbon shafts. I always use wood. Even though aluminum and carbon fiber were available. I always liked wood. Maybe I was too cheap to spend the money on the more expensive shafts, but I wonder if the new carbon shaft since they've been so much aren't as accurate when you're taking a slap shot. I don't know this. I'm just thinking that might be the reason. I remember some face-offs that guy's lost because they're stick broke. Years ago. That was another talking point that maybe guy should have a different stick on key face offs, but that's a whole different conversation

Very good to get a goalie's perspective on this. I had mentioned how always come out and cut down the angle. Whenever they see you wind up for a slap shot. I won't call myself a goalie but whenever a goalie didn't show up, I was the one that usually went in net because I was decent at it. I said decent. No one confused me with an actual goalie but I actually liked playing goalie. Maybe two to three times a year. And I remember whenever somebody wound up for slap shot the first thing I did was come straight out to him and cut the angle down. And I've also mentioned that when someone winds up for a slap shot, people try to get in front of it or get a stick in the lane. I had a pretty hard slap shot but I didn't score a lot of goals on it for all of those reasons. I like how you mentioned that being able to take a risk shot with these new sticks. Keep the goalie back in his crease. I love all the comments on this. Very interesting topic. I only started playing hockey when I was like 17 but I was always a baseball player. This is of course a side note just for your entertainment. I used to play shortstop and when I started feeling in for the goalie I thought I was going to have this awesome glove hand being an infield or in baseball. Nope. Not at all. And I think the difference is in baseball. You're always catching the ball out in front of you. Your hands are out straight in front of you, but when you're a goalie and hockey you catch off to the side. Baseball players never catch a ball off to the side of their body like that. My best love saves for when the guys shot the puck right into my catching glove. I was decent at goalie but my expectations have having a good glove hand were never met

Only to be outdone in that department by Wendel Clark from the Leafs. ..just as an aside…my brother played with Stan for 5-6 years…way back when..