7 of the best, most filthiest shootout goals in the history of hockey

The shootout in the NHL has been a staple of the sport since the 2005-06 season. Here are the best of the best NHL shootout goals in league history.

There’s no doubt that the NHL shootout has become an antiquated way of settling a hockey game. It’s become quite a boring method of finding the winner of a hockey game on any given night after so many years of its existence.

However, the shootout has produced many incredible goals over the years since its inception in 2005-06, ones that stand the test of time even to this day. Even modern NHL goal scorers have come up with some gems even though it seems as if we’ve seen all the ways to score in a shootout.

While the shootout of today may be lacking in creativity at times, there are many years of NHL history to pull from where players made names for themselves with their moves. The shootout has endured for so long partially because of the creativity we see from players new and old, even if the idea has gotten a bit stale over the years.

With that being said, here are the seven best shootout goals from NHL history.

Honorable mention: The Olympics

Though this is technically cheating, I can’t write something on shootouts without mentioning two of the more iconic Olympic shootouts in hockey history. The first is, of course, T.J. Oshie‘s Olympic shootout sequence from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

After tying Team Russia in the best-of-three shootout, Team USA opted to have Oshie shoot five consecutive times (and scoring on three of them) against goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky to help the United States to a 3-2 win in the preliminary round. Sure, this is more of a sequence than a goal itself, but you can’t talk about shootouts and not mention Oshie’s Olympic heroics.

The second iconic Olympic shootout moment comes from the most recent Olympic games in 2018 on the women’s side. With Team USA and Canada in a deadlock at 2-2 after regulation and overtime, the two teams played to one of the more tense shootouts in recent memory.

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson capped off the 3-2 win for the United States with an incredible sequence of moves — aptly titled “Oops, I did it again” in honor of the Britney Spears song — that went down in hockey history as one of the best shootout goals ever seen.

Lamoureux-Davidson’s goal not only gave the Americans their first gold medal over Team Canada since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, but it also enacted revenge on Team USA’s previous heartbreaking overtime gold-medal defeat at the hands of their rivals in the 2014 Winter Olympics.