Joe Sakic the best wrist shot in NHL history?

[Yggdrasil]

look at this shot for example, like no wind up and through the legs of scott stevens to top shelf vs brodeur.

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[Hynh]

I'm pretty Sakic is the reason I never learned how to take a slap shot as a kid.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

Top 5 for sure

 

[VoluntaryDom]

More of best snap shot but yeah, sure.

 

[Trinstin]

Brodeur's reaction says it all.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

In my opinion totally.

 

[ESH]

It's definitely up there. I'd nominate Ovechkin and Tarasenko as current players in the running.

 

[TaLoN]

Absolutely!

Gaborik in in his prime was pretty damn good too.

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Semin

 

[CB Joe]

It's definitely up there. I'd nominate Ovechkin and Tarasenko as current players in the running.

Kessel's pretty good too.

 

[habsrule4eva3089]

The game needs more Croatian players like him. The game has drifted towards just English,Scottish names now coming from Canada. Lol

 

[Gsus]

Ovechkin, Tarasenko, Laine have a pretty good wrist shots too.

 

[heretik27]

I'm pretty Sakic is the reason I never learned how to take a slap shot as a kid.

Hehe, I never used my slap shot, but Gretzky was the reasoning for me. Ironically, he had a pretty good slap shot himself.

 

[Ceremony]

Yes.

Ed - after watching the video I'd never seen the goalie wife cam, that was quite amusing

 

[pvr]

Phil Esposito. He probably never scored a goal on a slap shot in his career.

 

[DearDiary]

Yes, this has been much discussed on the HOH board. Sakic and Semin have the best wrist shots in NHL history

 

[Super Hans]

You can call it nostalgia-goggles all you want, I don't care: calls like that made playoff hockey 100x better back then than it is today.

 

[Major Happy*]

I always used his curve on my stick, haha. Still use one today, haha.

 

[PCDiesel]

I would agree

 

[that is unfortunate]

Top 5 for sure, Gaborik and Semin are 2 recent candidates

 

[Mighty Makar]

I think so.

 

[Balthazar]

Top 3 wrist shot and backhand shot.

 

[Brewsky]

OP creates a thread about a wrist shot.

Links a video showing a snap shot.

 

[Yggdrasil]

OP creates a thread about a wrist shot.

Links a video showing a snap shot.

to have that good of a snap shot, you must also have top tier wrist shot.

 

[Revelation]

It was Semin in his prime quite comfortably, hence why his wrists fell apart later on. Just like Bure and his knees