Alex Ovechkin is the greatest goal scorer in NHL history, thanks in large part to one-timer that is probably the most unpredictable and hardest to read because it sometimes actually curves. 

That was the consensus among the half dozen goalies InGoal Magazine talked to over the past decade about the famed Ovechkin one-timer, a shot so effective it often didn’t matter if everyone in the building, including the goalie, knew it was coming. 

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