Most beautiful hockey plays that didn't result in a goal?

[donutz0r]

Datsyuk owns every Hawk except Crawford:

Such an incredible talent. Amazing.

 

[Muston Atthews]

 

[Kunta Kinte]

Holy **** Blake was fast!

 

[silkyjohnson50]

Might as well keep them coming since he is a human highlight reel. This one was as a rookie, in OT of Game 3 of the Finals.

 

[Malkin112*]

 

[Teemu Salami]

AKA the Pavel Datsyuk appreciation thread

 

[kingsholygrail]

 

[Fighter]

Pavel Bure first shift, no slouch.

 

[TT1]

sigh, this happens like every game

 

[22FUTON9]

gotta be duchene. He's so good but so bad at the same time.

 

[Tacos]

First one that came to my mind, damn I wish that the Leafs would have scored one here

 

[The Panther]

Easy answer! Wayne Gretzky, March 14th, 1986 vs. Detroit (final season of the 'Dead Wings' era).

Should see it here, if this embedded properly (sequence starts at about 5:00):


Gretzky does some of the fanciest stickhandling ever seen and passes to a wide-open Jari Kurri -- then, the NHL's top goal-scorer -- and Kurri... misses the net.

 

[Pavels Dog]

Datsyuk's got too many of these. For all the highlight reel goals he has, there are 3 or 4 that could have been just as good or better that didn't result.

Some of the best are in these compilations, some goals in there too but mostly cool dekes that didn't turn into goals:

 

[Gains]

The first one I thought of:


Another nice one:

 

[BonMorrison]

The first one I thought of:

Came to post this.

 

[SChan*]

peter forsberg the thread.

 

[Burakovsky95*]

Never should have been disallowed

 

[Burakovsky95*]

Also these:

 

[VanIslander]

Many by Sergei Berezin, Jeff Friesen, J. P. Dumont, Sergei Samsonov and Maxim Afinogenov!

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Came to post this.

I remember seeing that live, almost **** my pants.

Would have been a top 10 goal all time.

 

[Kunta Kinte]

Many by Sergei Berezin, Jeff Friesen, J. P. Dumont, Sergei Samsonov and Maxim Afinogenov!

can you explain further ? I get afinogenov, berezin and samsonov at some extent... but dumont and friesen ?

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Holy **** Datsyuk is just un****ingbelievable.

And I just wish Ovechkin scored that goal with the hit, lmfao.

 

[ottawa]

Surprised this wasn't mentioned yet

He looks like a duck waddling when he skates wtf haha

 

[Bougieman]

Love that first shift of Bure's, but Kyle Wellwood has two of my fave "almost goals" in Canucks history. This one:



And there is another one that is even better, but I can't find it on youtube. There were only a handful of seconds left on the clock, and he went on a one man mission, and *did* actually score, but was a second too slow, and he ran out of time to tie the game. If anyone knows which game that was in, please post the vid because I know it's on youtube, but I can't track it down.

 

[olop]

That's a better pass than what he was capable of doing with stick.