Slapshot

It has four stages which are executed in one fluid motion to launch the puck toward the net: The slapshot is a hard and fast shot, and difficult to make accurate.

Slapshots are iconic to hockey's image due to their capability to score as a surprise turning point, the loose equivalent of a home run in baseball or a Hail Mary in American football.

[2] Black Canadian Eddie Martin, of the Coloured Hockey League's Halifax Eurekas, has also been credited with inventing the slapshot in the late 1800s.

In the summertime, Irvin would draw a chalk outline of a net onto his family's sled garage, and practice one timers off a piece of wooden board embedded into the ground.

The one-timer still sees use by letting the person taking the slapshot set up before they even have the puck, thus avoiding the slow wind-up time that gives the defence a chance to react.

[9] NHL/AHL and KHL slapshot speed records are not directly comparable to each other, as the official regulations for the hardest shot vastly differs between the leagues.