"Good"?? The best shot ... EVER.KOVALEV10 said:2- Mike Bossy: This guy was so great to watch as all his shots looked good. His wrist shot looked good, his slap shot looked good, 5 hole looked good, everything looked good.
Ginner's in T.O. said:I love your list.
mcphee said:For pure excitement my first reaction was Perreault,Lafleur,Gretzky,Lemieux,Cournoyer in no particular order.
Then I thought, Orr has to be there,then Bure,Denis Savard. Wally mentionned Bobby Hull, 61-69, he was the guy, easily the most exciting player in the league.
Excitement's a personal reaction though, there aren't any wrong answers. I never found the great Islander players exciting, just coldly effeicient .
Well done...genius post SON OF ROCKY BAY!!!Son of Rocky Bay said:my picks
Wayne Gretzky - (mind)
Mario Lemieux - (body)
Cam Neely - (total package)
Martin St. Louis - (name)
Stu Grimson - (interviews)
Orr - (best ever)
John Flyers Fan said:Fo rthsoe that have listed Bossy, I don't quite get him.
While I consider him to be one of the 2 or 3 best goal scorers I've ever seen, IMO he wasn't as "exciting" as the other players listed.
Bossy had an incredible shot, and was a better version of Brett Hull, but he didn't often do things that "wowed" me, like a Lemieux, Bure, Gretzky etc.
Wally, I'm sure you've noticed how many Bruin fans there are in Mtl. I've always thought they evolved from Hawk fans. Most cities have a group that'll always root against the home team,in Mtl. it ran a bit deeper as there were sons of old Maroon fans who felt it there duty to hate the Habs. In the 60's these guys were all Chicago fans, great schoolyard fights. By the late 60's they'd all disappeared and the Orr Bruins were their team, and they sort of stuck with them. Every team had a guy designated to shadow Bobby Hull, but if he could leave his own zone with the puck, he was gone. You slowed him early or not at all.Gee Wally said:That's why I put Hull in there...I can remember going into the old garden with my dad in the pre -Bobby Orr days...Hull was a drawing card for the league in the mid and late 60's for sure. The Bruins were lucky in them days to draw 6 or 7 thousand some nights..when Chicago came to town with the Golden Jet, the place was packed.
I don't know about others, but they are basically given, so I didn't bother to mention them.Lionel Hutz said:So many lists without Mario and/or Wayne and/or Bobby.
I don't get it.
Plus as soon as Bossy entered the "o" zone there was a chance that he would score. IMO his winding up to shoot was more exciting than a guy like Samsonov skating around people but getting 20 goals a year.RobQ73 said:I see what you're saying, but I'm the type that finds any goal that isn't a rebound or tap-in to be exciting. My definition of exciting is how many oohs and ahhs a player would get from the crowd, not necessarily by how many dekes or odd-man rushes a player created. It can be loud like a MacInnis slapper, fast like a Bure rush or an exquisite tic-tac-toe power play one-timer that Bossy and Lemiuex were so great at. I listed Bossy first because of how quiet crowds would get every time he touched the puck. And I'll admit also because I am a homer and I saw him most often of all the greats.
Look Buddy,I don't know who this Richard character is but I've done some research and he certainly hasn't played in the NHL in the last 20 years.Why did you have to go and ruin a perfectly good "all-time" list.By naming such a nobody you insultDrake1588 said:I'll toss Maurice Richard into the mix.
pei fan said:Look Buddy,I don't know who this Richard character is but I've done some research and he certainly hasn't played in the NHL in the last 20 years.Why did you have to go and ruin a perfectly good "all-time" list.By naming such a nobody you insult
the legend of such greats as Kovalchuk and Pavel"the Russian Rocket"Bure.
Don't you know on this board "all-time" generally means the last 20 years with
extra weighting given to last week(with an exception for Bobby Orr and
only because Don Cherry talks about him so much). You must be
new to here.Anyway next time don't post something so ridiculous.