Top 10 Dekes And Dangles of All Time

Take a look back at the top 10 dekes and dangles of all time! Let us know what goals you think we missed below!
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[@Jacob-gu3in]

Sportsnet has never made a good top 10 list.

[@OurBlackFriend]

Absolutely

[@peterpulciani]

That's why TSN will always have a better top 10.

[@liamgrapes4812]

You need to see watchmojo.

[@d0giem]

@ObamaisnextLincoln that wasnt even as good as him 'galloping' against tampa

[@jimstunt9893]

Jacob besides Pavel Datsyuk he has pretty good dekes

[@DEDCELLS1]

On Toews: "This is the kind of talent that can bring a franchise back from death" 3 Cups later, foresight

[@PSonak]

Now they're dead again.

[@DEDCELLS1]

@@PSonak Ingesting that much sodium is bad for your health.

[@PSonak]

@@DEDCELLS1 You realize they didn't make the playoffs... right? Oh, wait, you're trying to be cute. Sorry. Oh!!! Good one!!! Because stating the truth makes me salty!!! Oh you.

[@fredoh7553]

PSonak two years in a row 😬

[@robertlewisjr.5389]

@PSonak #facts m8. FACTS.

[@bjorn7100]

To me it seems like Lemieux is No. 1 because of his name rather than the actual play. Ovechkin's and Nash's are my favourites.

[@Jeenine]

Same, Nash and Ovi for sure

[@thaneboot2578]

I agree as well accept I would throw toews goal in the mix as well

[@ayumi5621]

Was going to drop that comment as well. Cant agree more.

[@metalzonemt-2]

I wouldn't put it on my top 10. I've seen way cooler goals.

[@100ballster]

Was thinking the same...

[@CD-ni8hi]

The awesome thing about the Toews goal was that it was the Avalanche announcers going crazy over it lol

[@richardvondal7731]

Not only that but if I remember correctly, that was his second career goal

[@dylanstarzec2099]

Richard Vondal I thought it was his first

[@richardvondal7731]

@@dylanstarzec2099 I couldn't remember exactly but I just looked. It was his second. His first was againsr San Jose

[@HandsOfCinderblock]

Speaking as a Canucks fan, the Avs commentators are great. They have a new guy now, and he's also fun to listen to.

[@thesinbin960]

I thought that the #10-2 were all better than the #1

[@maap1095]

Yeah but ya got to respect the most talented player of all time

[@big_turk]

@theplayboymaster Classy.

[@anthonyz1327]

That's because #10-2 were all better than #1

[@mr.devil9577]

@@maap1095 that's the problem go by how impressive the goal is not just because it's a certain player it runs the list

[@maap1095]

Club Shay Shay yeah but It was for theplayboymaster comment that I said that

[@derektucci84]

Just put a full compilation of Datsyuk dangle's... they are all the best

[@ImmortalWombat]

Or me, my hands are too fast to be picked up on camera tho

[@stellaroj]

I'm a Pens fan and you're not wrong. Datsyuk highlight reels are nutty.

[@derektucci84]

@@stellaroj I'm a devil's fan

[@thekillers1stfan]

Yeah, I mean #9 for sure should've been higher. He beat all 6 players on the ice for Nashville and this is when Nashville was at their peak in terms of defense

[@terrybono5995]

ha i was going to comment the same thing

[@christopherrobinson767]

The Jagr one is wayyyyy better than that Lemieux goal.....to quote Harry Neal.....'There's only 4 people in the building that Jagr didn't deke and 3 of them are ushers" :) haaahahahaa

[@bluenotefan5]

I know which goal you're talking about, and it was an amazing goal!

[@burningfarts]

I think it was 3 of them are Russians, or something like that.

[@Bleighckques]

@@burningfarts Nah, it was definitely "ushers". And, in case anyone is wondering, the fourth guy he didn't deke was Jagr himself.

[@peteandrepete528]

We all have our favorites and no 2 lists would be the same.There's been so many good goals like these you could easily do a 25 best list.

[@user-mi7nw5kt4w]

Jagr could've had 4 or 5 goals on this list. Can't believe he wasn't on here at least once.

[@JJJ111JJJ]

Would that Lemieux goal even make the list if it was just some third liner doing it?

[@MasonStoltz28]

I never understand why everyone thinks that Lemieux play was better than the rest

[@theodorebelmont7922]

Mason Stoltz 28 because it was

[@meowza]

Because he did it in the Stanley Cup Finals and not on a regular season home game in January

[@olbenny4027]

It's because his name is Lemieux. Anybody else it wouldn't be a big deal. Not worthy of even being on this list

[@theodorebelmont7922]

@@olbenny4027 Lemieux translated into English means "the best"

[@RodelIturalde]

Because it was made by Lemieux. If it had been made by a 'no-namer' like Datsyuk, it wouldn't be no.1.

[@ackrgaul]

instead of calling it ´top 10 dekes of all time´ just call it ´10 great dekes´ so that you can keep on making these highlight videos and not offend anyone by not having one particular highlight missing

[@th4tsaxman]

All they care about is ad money, so if more people can watch for longer and talk about it then they've won. Putting a goal like that at #1 does all of these things.

[@SuperRavensfan101]

I feel like Ovechkin and Nash’s deserved to be 1 and 2. I know Lemeiux’s goal was good but not at the same level as either of those other two dekes in term of actual skill needed to pull of those moves. Also Bobby Ryan’s was filthy too. Those three would be my top 3

[@thekillers1stfan]

The Ovi one isn't exactly the greatest deke or dangle though, he actually got beat by Mara and just pulled the goal out of nowhere

[@Xerxsion]

Ovi goal is just terrible Goaltending, I have NO CLUE where whoever that Goalie was was going, should have just followed the play instead of making some ridiculous dive. Highly overrated (still impressive), many other dekes here were better though. Nash's is hands down #1 because of how smooth that puck control is, like it was glued onto his stick. I would put Savard as #2 and Datsyuk at #3 because they went though 3+ defenders and had puck possession almost end to end.

[@Mellowyellow8888]

@@Xerxsion Notice a team in that video.. Phoenix.. those were times when they were really BAD... i'm not even sure they were good enough to win an AHL championship..

[@stpbasss3773]

@@Xerxsion yeah ovi was impressive because he was sliding on his back and somehow aimed the shot, but like you said it wasn't a hard shot and the once he fell the goalie just stopped looking at the puck it was an easy stop.

[@djphlange]

Those goals happened nearly 15-20 years after the Mario goal, hockey has evolved immensely, and a big part of that was Mario

[@louiebili17yearsagoedited85]

What the hell were those backcheckers doing on the Spezza goal

[@fredoh7553]

Louie Bili probably witnessing their teammates jockstrap glazing across the ice.

[@shaungalloway9701]

I was just watching it and thinking that, brutal

[@HockeyCentral-xd8fs]

Have you seen Ovechkins goal vs the Rangers in 2009, that was one of the greatest goals of all time and so under appreciated. I would say it’s better than any goal here

[@oshie77]

Legit one of my favourite goals from Ovi and i swear its never on any top 10s or compilations

[@ninjabrett17]

Unbelieveable how much more skilled hockey is now than ever before.

[@MrSharkFIN]

Literally one was from the "Hockey now"

[@issesound9289]

@@MrSharkFIN Yeah but that's because of nostalgia.

[@MrSharkFIN]

@@issesound9289 Yes, I know

[@issesound9289]

Okay, then you also know your comment is irrelevant? :*

[@forbzee44]

Sportsnet obviously hasn't seen me play NHL19

[@snortieshag2248]

🤣👍

[@Treyturner89]

Datsyuk on couture was better than all of these

[@Samsquamsh]

pfft hardly.

[@Icecat21]

@Trey TRUTH

[@Blue-dx4sd]

Samsquamsh again, u still don’t know who he is buddy.

[@Samsquamsh]

@@Blue-dx4sd Yeah I do. His stats speak for themselves... And I'm not your buddy, guy!

[@miles6711]

Treyster Gamez it wasn’t a goal

[@Xerxsion]

The actual top 3 should have been: 3 - Pavel Datsyuk vs Entire Preds team 2 - Denis Savard vs Oilers 1 - Rick Nash (SOOO SILKY SMOOTH, Puck looks like it's glued to his stick)

[@MrRyanxdavey]

Glued to his stick... until it gets poke checked off his stick and takes a lucky bounce off his stomach and right back to his tape, you mean? Great dangles on the 2 dmen, but he was very lucky to score on that play

[@ben_cross21]

Ovi’s goal will always be one of the craziest I’ve seen

[@Samsquamsh]

That Lemieux goal was hella weak for the 1st position. He just did a lil toe drag, tis all.

[@nickcassetta6591]

Impossible to narrow the best dangles of all time down to 10. Bold decision to upload this video

[@mikea3273]

It's funny how admired that Mario one still is considering it's a pretty common single move deke seen all of the time now.

[@NHLfan96]

Lemieux's goal is so overrated. Great goal but not the best dangle ever.

[@HandsOfCinderblock]

It should be in a top 10 list for playoff goals, or even just clutch goals.

[@kfeigel]

McDavids was better

[@andrewborody]

Lemieux scored about 30 prettier goals in his career than that.

[@aps1s]

Steve Dangle is my all time favourite dangle

[@terencedavids]

We coulda had a whole list of Top 10 dekes from The Magic Man

[@scmmixer1]

I know 10 datsyuk dekes that are better then all the is video does not give the magic man any justice and u put him at 9 like wtf

[@fredoh7553]

steven miks how they didn’t put the ones that he made the goalie go a completely different way is beyond me

[@HughHarding46]

@@fredoh7553 I agree I am surprised his goal on Marty Turco was not in here.

[@dannydangles0929]

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a datsyukian deke. Ahhhhhhh the good old days😌

[@eeriky718]

Not a Crosby fan, but what about him against Oilers?

[@uriah9645]

Eerik Y wdym?

[@Matteo1Napolitano]

Ovechkin’s goal is so underrated. It’s arguably one of the best goals of all time in any sport. Only other goal that I think could be better is Roberto Carlos’ goal from the goal line in soccer.

[@jasondashney]

Underrated? That goal was at the top of every single list on KZbin for a decade. Also, that goal is the most OVERRATED goal of all time cuz it was pure fluke chance, not skill.

[@austinschwartz8226]

Noticed that Steve wasn't on here.

[@haidermoh.9937]

That Toew's goal had the best reaction! Such a smooth goal!

[@BennyOkay]

Okay. The ovechkin one at 8.... he doesn’t even really beat the defender with his deke. The goalie was just madly out of position. And the datsyuck at 9... another defensive breakdown more than a sick deke. GREAT goals. Too 10 DEKES of all time though?

[@ryanhillier107]

Sir u can not discredit that ovi goal. Cmon

[@jasondashney]

@@ryanhillier107 That goal was a lunging fluke. Most overrated goal in the history of the league bar none (and I like Ovi).

[@12345thehockeyman]

Great move by Spezza, but how did neither of those Habs players make a single effort to get to him after the first move. LOL.

[@tgs2141]

They were probably to star struck to do anything

[@ImmortalWombat]

I love the announcers for Ovi’s goal! It’s perfect and it was Arizona homers! Those guys were beauts!

[@Jordan91alexander]

No Jagr. What is this a list for all of the 2nd place finishers?

[@joedecristoforo5434]

Fun times watching those great plays

[@nintendoconvert4045]

The Dennis Savard one was SICK! One-handed between the legs?! WOW!

[@usernamunavailiable]

I absolutely love Lemieux's goal, and he just happens to be my favorite player of all time. That being said I can't really say that goal was the nicest deke in this list. Jagr's from the series against Chicago in the next cup final in my opinion is better. Even on this list I believe there were better. Nash's goal especially.

[@jordanshort4071]

That Spezza goal lol habs d just casually watching the beautifulness

[@Nacnud92]

The Ovechkin goal was sick, but the deke was subpar, he fell down and the puck hit off the defenders skate. Very lucky, as opposed to the spin-o-rama deke off the boards to himself years ago, or any of his between the legs dekes, much more skill involved. Also, the Datsyuk deke against SJ where two Sharks players collided would’ve been nice to see on this list. I feel like all of these resulting in goals is a little bias, there are plenty of nice dekes/dangles where the player doesn’t score.

[@symba8050]

Not tryin to be a salty flyers fan...But where’s Giroux’s move against Tampa?!!

[@Lihis22]

as a tampa fan.. i agree!

[@jefferyhall1646]

That's funny. I was thinking about McCarty's goal in game 4. But I'm a Detroit fan.

[@thedankswordsmantm]

There's a jagr and forsberg missing

[@johannest3628]

Yeah, about 50 Jagr dekes are missing.

[@jerrymalinowski9736]

Lemieux goals was truly amazing. The 6 second clip does not capture the awe of it. This goal came in the Stanley cup final. Lemieux had not won a cup yet. The Stars were battling hard to win it and then came this goal. When he scored this goal you knew Mario would not be denied. Anyways, I remember watching it Live and reacting that was the best goal I ever saw. The best player I saw play (ok. Well one of the best)

[@Yeah_Whocares]

Fun Fact: It can't be a Sportsnet list if the Devils aren't getting scored on in it.

[@chrisbeazley4541]

They missed the ovi one on the devils when he went through the legs and through the defenders

[@brianbartos1195]

Does no one else see how badly Lemieux dekes out Casey? He opens his blade to fake a forehand shot and takes it away as soon as Casey bites on it. If he just shoots this probably isn't a goal. If he just goes straight to the backhand the goalie stands a chance of tracking the shot and stopping it. The impressive thing here is how fast his mind works to figure out the best chance to score. It's incredible spacial awareness and timing. Truly special. And it's during a high stakes game in the cup finals. I can't believe I had to comment on here to defend this goal for being number one.

[@scottwyllie2278]

Ovechkins goal was definitely the best one on this and should’ve been no. 1 imo. The composure he kept to pull that off and the fact that he pulled it off all in one fluid motion just made it so perfect, he made is look easy.

[@LoowheezeBreeze]

Ovechkin scored an incredible goal, but the deke/dangle aspect of it wasn't impressive... he actually lost the puck and got lucky that it hit the defender's skate and came back to him

[@goosewrld7921]

How could you forget Crosby's OT winner in Edmonton?

[@PerceKelowna]

I’m not convinced Mario’s was even his own nicest deke

[@jxy93]

Surely at least one of the best dekes and or dangles OF ALL TIME took place before 1985.

[@wickedozma]

That mcdavid goal is something but to do it your first game after a pretty serious injury is another level 🐐

[@acidpanda6500]

Never clicked off a TSN video so quick

[@CokeBoyBaby]

Every video got better and better

[@PierLuc111]

How can ovechkin's goal be beaten by any of the 9 others ?

[@brendantroitsky4041]

Because it's not really a deke or dangle? Amazing play, but the dman was with him the entire way and he didn't get a good shot off or anything.

[@jasondashney]

Because it was a lucky fluke and not a skill play at all.

[@mr.devil9577]

If Lemieuxs against the North Stars is here it's a bad list

[@GodlyXJohn]

auston mathews 4 goals in his first game the damn dangles he does on the 3rd goal on karlson hahaha thats the best hands down

[@gracenadianathan]

I’m a Vegas fan but freakin Rick Nash was the absolute best and second should be bobby Ryan

[@ryanhillier107]

Bobby Ryan's goal is slightly less impressive because legwand lost his stick. Still nasty though. And ya nash's goal is godlike

[@tomwilson3969]

Why is mario #1. His was the most basic, least impressive play on the list. Could have done a top 10 of Dekes from last season that were all better than that. Then again, this is sportsnet im talking about

[@rvermeulen66]

fool

[@tomwilson3969]

rvermeulen66 Awe aren’t you cute. Can you actually put a thought and argument together or do you just stupidly shout fool because you don’t agree. Mario’s is the most iconic goal on that list. But far from the nicest. He deked one guy and did a single move to the backhand. Please tell me how that was better than Crosby’s deke vs the oilers in overtime last season. The only fool here is you.

[@oadjapsihdaobd3405]

didn’t u get ur ass beat by ryan reaves

[@djphlange]

@@rvermeulen66 unbelievably foolish

[@djphlange]

Because he did this in the early 90s when no one else was doing this, he also did it in the playoff finals, you can argue its maybe not #1 , but in context the move means more tha just the dangle itself

[@1madmaxx80]

I still remember watching Mario 'The Magnificent' Lemieux score that goal on Casey. Lemieux was the best player ever. Shame his health cut his career short.

[@NordicDartfrog]

Off these ten, my top three are Ovie, Ryan and Savard.

[@artcorvolet]

I'm a Blackhawks fan, and how you don't have the Jagr goal against the Hawks in the 92 final, is beyond me!

[@Samisnotavailable]

I was expecting Steve Dangle to present this 😂

[@pondababa4197]

Yeah man, Jagr Vs. Blackhawks has to be on this list. The Rick Nash goal may be my fav of all time though.

[@lrgpapa315]

Overall pretty good list but you missed McDavid, McDavid, Mcdavid, and McDavid

[@86Wutang86]

Lol ovi.....how is that a deak or dangle......he didn't even get passed the defenceman he just fell and with alot of luck he scored.

[@0512tommy]

86Wutang86 still the prettiest goal un the nhl since 15 years

[@scmmixer1]

@@0512tommy have u ever watched datsuyk tf way better the ovi

[@0512tommy]

King Bezerker still better than the McDavid segment

[@0512tommy]

steven miks sorry i dont remember Datsyuk scoring on his back

[@fredoh7553]

Tommy Latulippe And I don’t remember Ovechkin dekeing an entire shift of players and then scoring.

[@tyrekecantrell5941]

Toews had hands as smooth as butter!

[@overtimefreak2685]

That's the art of icehockey, it's a perfect performance. Rick Nash at No 2 was my favourite

[@cwallace]

Ummmm. Totally missing the Maxim Afinigenov goal.

[@billsouza4457]

I had forgotten about that one. Your right.

[@garyfleming5156]

All time???? How can you leave such players as the great Gilbert Perreault off this list. There were so many times in the 70's I witnessed him go to the back of his own net basically indicating to all he was coming to then dipsy doodle his way through the entire opposition team and score a brilliant goal. Perreault was in a class all by himself.

[@bobber1165]

Peter Forsberg in 03 vs Calgary

[@nick8764]

I could watch that Datsyuk goal all day

[@hindsight-gd7bz]

The Ovechkin goal was the best goal in this video

[@fatalwreck9254]

When i first watchin this the whole time i was thinking Rick Nash better be on this list somewhere and lone n behold. Oshie also had a pretty sick deke long time ago when he was with St. Louis.

[@ThenorinSSBM]

How come Ovechkin's insane goal against the Rangers never gets highlighted?

[@koivu11huet39]

Yep, one of the greatest goals of all time.

[@austinthephoenix50]

4:51 “It doesn’t get any better than this!!” *number* *two* *on* *the* *list*

[@Anthony-GoAvsGo]

I am anything but a Crosby fan but that one OT goal where he danced around everyone was pretty sweet

[@koshka02]

you can really tell that McDavid watched a lot of Datsyuk growing up lol

[@GateKeeper36]

Ovi won rookie of the year instantly after that goal.

[@warrenstroud7074]

Nah, Bobby Ryan and Jason Spezza were too sick nasty with it 😂🔥

[@jacobjimenez-lopez9404]

Maybe you should update and add the two new Mcdavid ones

[@earlviney5212]

Lemieux did this in the stanley cup final. That's why it's up there. He did it when it counts

[@RedRoverTW]

Where was Giroux's 2018 goal? He undressed the entire Lightning team, dragged the Puck through his legs, and lifted McDonagh's stick as he dangled, only to smoke Vasilevskiy at the end.

[@muadhib001]

Rick Nash's deke(s) is probably the best I've seen. Many of the others wouldn't have made my list but good video nonetheless. I miss hockey so much

[@leoh7866]

Forsberg vs Calgary? McCarty vs philly? So many others

[@lamarmartin847]

Sportsnet didn’t even put Matthews dangle from the World Cup on this list 😱

[@willnixon1583]

They make it look so easy :D

[@tjlane9783]

What happened to Matthews goal in his first game against Ottawa

[@isaacfrohlich4575]

I think that Rick Nash goal is the best one I've ever seen. He looks like he's playing against Peewee kids

[@asellers62]

He geeked the whole world!!! 66Lemuix

[@MaverickRE]

This is an okay list but they are in the wrong order. I'm also shocked Ovi's back hand off the boards to himself in Montreal wasn't on here

[@davidw3513]

Those were cool

[@brinbone2384]

That spezza one was filthy

[@acidpanda6500]

I’m a simple man. I see a sportsnet video I click

[@danielbengtsson5428]

What about Andre Burakovsky deke against the blues

[@Bia-nb6gv]

Dude... the person who made this list have some problems... Lemieux in 1st? Rick should be in 1st 😪

[@Bia-nb6gv]

And where is Jagr??

[@jguertin8918]

Some sick yangles ferda boys

[@ennisdelmar807]

3:40 when you deke with player that has 20 in balance in NHL 19

[@Artist____]

Look at that Canadians defence😂😂

[@coltoncoffin9126]

Lemieux’s is the best, just iconic

[@user-wj8qe8ls9r]

Im tell only one boys? Where is malkin? Goal against tampa 1-5 from net to net? Where is malkin spin or ramaa againsst edmonton ?

[@72Kraken]

Where's Jagr?