Top 10 Shootout Goals

by David Hutchison

TSN ran their top 10 creative shootout goals recently. While I’m not sure as goalies we want to celebrate our fellow ‘tenders leaving their jockstraps behind as they get mesmerized by a player in the shootout – you have to admit that some of these are pretty impressive. Consider it scouting, or shootout research to check out what the most creative players have to do to beat the best goalies in the world.

I think if this happened to me, once the game was over and the crying was done, I’d be able to shake a few guys’ hands for their creativity (Datsuk, for example), a few guys would just frustrate me (“they scored skating in backwards? how did I let that in”) and one or two guys I’d just want to run through the boards (Ribeiro – I’d have shaken his hand until he went and did that shhhhhh to the crowd, the guy with the lacrosse move – cool, but then to just stand in my face and wave it around? Hammer time).