Your Top 10 Greatest hockey moments (NHL or other)

[Sniper#39 0]

Be warned - I'm a die hard Oiler fan so this WILL be laden with Oiler references..

10. Going to Edmonton's first-ever NHL game with my Dad (Still have the ticket stub)

09. Watching Gretzky & co. defeat the Montreal Canadiens in their first playoff series win (again with Dad).

08. The sadness of losing to the Islanders in '83

07. The sheer eleation of beating them in '84

06. The shock when Calgary beat them in '86

05. The greater shock when they won the most unlikely one in '90

04. The come from behind win against Dallas to win the series (before getting punted by them for what seems like forever after)

03. When the CBA was done - and the Oil Signed Pronger, Peca - gave us all hope..

02. Taking the Wings in 6 this year - with ME taking my father - instead of the other way around (I finally get to pay him back after all those years)

01. Game 6 against San Jose - looking down the row and seeing my Father and my now 10 year old son with their arms wrapped around each other in joy as the time wound down.

A bit cornball I know - but I've been thinking about that moment since last week - and haven't stopped smiling about it.

Share your memories be they NHL or other.

Last night at dinner - my Dad told me that game 6 will be his fondest memory of this year - regardless of what happens.

[chk hrd 164]

The U.S. Olympic Team beating the Soviets and then going on to win the gold...."The Miracle"

[JR Boucicaut 3801]

Rangers Cup victory in 1994

[irbenaid 0]

Definitely Rangers cup victory in 1994. 2nd to that would be opening night of our AHL team - 11/13/1999 - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

[gavin 0]

Kinda random... Bure coming to Vancouver. Canadiens winning in '93. 2002 Avalanche vrs. Red Wings series. Same year, the Canucks going up on Detroit 2-0, but then after Lidstrom's goal in the 2nd of the 3rd, the series went downhill from there.

just some games I remember watching.

[hip check 0]

Play-off memories:

Gretzky's top-corner slapshot vs. Calgary.

Bure's deke vs. NYR in '94.

Scott Stevens hit on Paul Kariya... and then Kariya comes back!

Darren McCarty goal vs. the Flyers.

Yzerman passing the Cup to Konstantinov.

Steve Smith's 'own goal'.

The 'Battle of Alberta' through the '80's.

Ray Bourque hoisting the Cup, but not as a Bruin (not sure how I felt about that)

[Ti-girl 0]

Kariya getting smoked by Stevens, then coming back and his first shift ending up under White and Brodeur, and then scoring.

Andyerchuck finally getting his cup.

The Oilers cup run...RIGHT NOW.

[Briggy 0]

Some of my greatest hockey moments have come from this past year and 05-06 hockey season. Such as when Florida Panthers played New York Rangers and went into a shootout and Olli Jokinen stuffed it five hole for the Win. I havent lost my mind like that in a while. Also a few nights before that, the Panthers played the Tampa Lightning and were up by 4 goals in the start of the third. They ended up having to go into overtime until Olli Jokinen got a breakaway pass from Jozef Stumpell and won it in over time, 5 hole. But my greatest hockey memory is when I was coaching my 14 and under team and were losing by 5 goals with 5 minutes remaining in the game. My team ended up winning 7-6 final with 30 seconds remaining in the game. After that game the parents looked at an 19 year old coach a little differently B)

[theone96 0]

Leaf playoff runs during the Gilmour years, Penguins winning back to back cups, Salt Lake city 2002, Canada Cup 1987,

several of own floor/ice hockey tournaments

[shute 4]

1 the oilers winning the cup in 1990 and that bill randford glove save

2 the oilers cup run right now as well... an a fan living in surrey b.c i'm been waiting over 14 years for them to put together a decent run and it's time to rub it in everyones face.

3 laying on my back and looking up at center ice at my first ice hockey game when i was like 13-14. ya i started old but i played street hockey on blades for years before and coming from an asian family it took a LONG time to convince my parents to let me

4 getting my first set of ice hockey gear after saving up for a few years with all my birthday and christmas money (my mom got the skates for me though cause i didn't have enough).

5 watching Bure play when he was with the canucks even though i've never been a canucks fan.

6 being able to play hockey almost everyday after school when my parents thought i was at a friends place doing school projects... :P

7 jason arnott's rookie year with the oilers.

8 ... thats all i can think of for now.

[Edge 0]

In no particular order..

Avs win cup in 96 first year in CO.

Avs win cup in 01'

Bourque finally gets his cup

Me getting hit through the glass :lol:

Ovechkin coming into the NHL

USA 1980 Olympic gold against Soviets

My "firsts"(NHL game, public skate, my first game, etc.)

...cant think of many more.

[Hockeyman9621 0]

Top negative moments here.

No Order.

1. Gilmour getting high sticked no call '93.

2.Roberts leaving the Leafs. (saw it coming)

3.Tucker going from grinder to goal scorer. (unfortunate)

4.Sundin playing his best hockey and still missing out on the playoffs.

5.Losing to Philly-NJ.(Nooooooooo!)

6.Going to the corel centre and seeing the Sens thrash the canes 6-1.

Positive moments

1.Beating Ottawa after Alfredson guarentees cup.

2.Beating Ottawa the last 4 times we played them.

3.Salt Lake 2002

4.Going to the ACC this year seeing Darcy Tucker bury the Bruins in a shootout.(Tellqvist's last good game)

5.Seeing Captain pylon and the sens bow out to buffalo in 5.

6.EDIT 1st NHL game: Leafs beat the rags 9-1

LOL maybe I took the Ottawa hate too far, just for the record I don't hate the whole Ottawa team. Mainly Alfie and Havlat.

:)

[CardinalHcky19 0]

(not in any order)

Avs winning the cup in 01'

watching ovechkin play this year

me scoring my first hat trick and then 2 more in the same game

winning my league this year

Dallas winning the cup in 99' against Buffalo in 3OT

and more that i cant think of at the time

[McCabe24 0]

My favourite moment is probably Colorado winning the Cup in 2001, don't remember watching in 1996 and the Leafs haven't done anything of significance.

Least favourite would definately be when Carolina eliminated Toronto in 2002, that was our year.

[mnitishin 0]

Hull scoring the overtime goal in '99 to win the cup for Dallas.

[HockeyDude1712 0]

the day Lindros left philly!

[theone96 0]

the day Lindros left philly!

Crossing my fingers for the day he leaves Toronto... they better not resign him

[HockeyDude1712 0]

maybe he will retire. or maybe just to stupid because of all the head injuries!

[HotBacon 0]

These aren't necessarily the greatest, just the ones I remember the most vividly (in no particular order):

1. Hextall's first goal.

2. Hextall's first playoff goal.

3. Primeau's goal to end the game that wouldn't end.

4. Pete Peeters (in his Caps days) getting knocked out by a shot betwee the eyes (by a Devil if I remember correctly).

5. The first few games of watching Lindros in Philly (you gotta admit, the dude was good in the beginning).

6. Winning the Bear's Cup my senior year of high school...the inagural year of a new high school hockey league (CPIHL).

7. Scoring a goal on my first collegiate hockey shift , followed up by 2 more in the game for my first hat trick.

8. Scoring a goal on my last collegiate hockey shift.

[aoes812 0]

Since I don't live in any major NHL city.. mine are mostly ECHL

1. When our ECHL team won both the Brabham Cup and Kelly Cup in the same season. I was 8 and a lot of those players I looked up to even though I knew it was just ECHL.

2. Our second Kelly Cup.. I remember the crowd was ecstatic and crazy for an ECHL game

3. The Hurricanes Stanley Cup run in 2002..

4. The Hurricanes current run for the Cup now

5. Watching guys like Ray Bourque, one of my favorite players, and Dave Andreychuk finally hoist the Cup after all the years they played

[Grinder 2]

In no particular order:

The best:

Trent Klatt scoring against Minnesota with 1.3 seconds left to force OT

Claude Lemieux getting a righteous ass kicking for breaking Drapers face

Gretzky and Lemieux playing together in the '88 Canada Cup

The worst:

A cup being won with a foot in the crease (a 'no goal' for the whole season)

Watching the Jets leave Winnipeg, and the Nordiques leave Quebec

Sather and Messier come to Vancouver

[DeI 18 0]

- Bure's penalty shot on Richter in '94

- Messier's hattrick in Game 6 v. the Devils

- 15 round shootout victory for my Rangers v. the Caps this year

- Ovy's goal from his back against Phoenix

[j8Zt8r 0]

I can't think of an order to put these in so I will go chronilogical.

- 2nd grade laying on the living room floor getting to see my first hockey game(lived in Kansas at the time), the Miracle on Ice. My parents had the hardest time finding me a hockey stick after that

- the first hockey game I went to, Blues beat the North Stars

- the 2nd hockey game I went to, Blues vs. Hawks in the 80's was great

- being at the Monday night miracle, they call it that here, Wickenheiser scored to advance the Blues to the third round

- Brett Hull coming to St Louis, the Blues would be gone if not for him

- walking into the bathroom at a bar after a game, Shannie was having some fun with a girl on the sink, I always regret not asking him for his autograph then, and no, the girl was not Janney's wife

- game 3 of the '96 finals when i lived in florida, the panthers lost but it was still a great time

- working in a resteraunt and waiting on a table with the Cup as the center piece, that thing was pretty damn heavy, it would have looked strange hoisting it over my head in a tux so I didn't

- Taking my oldest son to his first game, Blues vs. Blackhawks, he just loved being able to chant blackhawks suck with the crowd and not getting in trouble from mom,

there was a game against the Oilers later that season and it was all quiet before a face-off and he decides to scream Canada sucks, realizing the error of his ways he did change it to Oilers, The guys around us bought him a hot dog and coke for the good laugh, another time we were second row with a face-off right in front of us and he stood up, hit the glass and told Ricci he looked like a dog.....man was that one funny

- taking my 8 year old to his first game this year with the Caanucks in town and sitting in the first row, he jumped at the first couple checks and then would stand up and cheer everytime there was another hit there, at the end of the 2nd period, Jamal Mayers came over and gave him the game puck over the glass, now that is his favorite player, right after the season, a friend of mine called Mayers and to find out when he would be at his shop so my son could thank him for memory and get an autograph

**FUTURE**

- being at the game and watching either Jonathon Toews or Jordon Staal hoist the cup and skate around the rink with it, I think it will be Toews as the #1 pick to us this year but who knows

- My most favorite will definately be hearing my little brother's name called at the NHL entry draft in a couple years, he is a '91, hopefully 1 of his old coaches who is a scout now for the Blues makes the GM take him

[JMart10 0]

Heres my top 10 Wings moments. Most all of them will be Wings moments because I grew up going to the games.

10. Datsyuk dangling Vokoun out of his jock strap in a shootout on March 21

9. Marty Lapointe takin a slapper and litteraly ripping through Roy's glove, securing their victory in i dont know which game of the series of 97' or 98' (I was there)

8. Steve Yzermans 2OT game winner against the Blues in game 7 of the 97' playoffs after caused a turnover on Gretzky, which made it that much sweeter. (I was there)

7. Watching Luc finally hoist the Cup (I was there)

6. Game 3 of the Wings vs. Canes series, triple OT winner (I was there)

5. The infamous Wings/Avs brawl (I was there)

4. Yzerman pass Konstantinov the Cup in the 98' playoffs

3. Patrick Roy have a mental breakdown in game 7 of the 2002 playoffs ( I was there)

2. McCarty completley owning the Flyers, winning Detroit the Cup.

1. Wings winning their first Stanley Cup in 42 years (I was there)

[gavin 0]

These aren't necessarily the greatest, just the ones I remember the most vividly (in no particular order):

1. Hextall's first goal.

2. Hextall's first playoff goal.

3. Primeau's goal to end the game that wouldn't end.

4. Pete Peeters (in his Caps days) getting knocked out by a shot betwee the eyes (by a Devil if I remember correctly).

5. The first few games of watching Lindros in Philly (you gotta admit, the dude was good in the beginning).

6. Winning the Bear's Cup my senior year of high school...the inagural year of a new high school hockey league (CPIHL).

7. Scoring a goal on my first collegiate hockey shift , followed up by 2 more in the game for my first hat trick.

8. Scoring a goal on my last collegiate hockey shift.

What college did you play for?