Most Beautiful NHL Plays Of The 2024-25 Season…So Far

An unbelievable individual effort. That was beautiful. Now you see it. Now you don't. He over skates. And he turns it over. Crosby, he's alone. Sidney Crosby. Strong streak. His history as Crosby serves up a Halloween treat. ...have led to greater success. McDavis steals. Waits. Shoots and scores. Poise. Precision. Polish. Branson is trying to force the turnover. Makes it. Finds McKinnon. Double up. Shoots. Scores. Nathan McKinnon. Top shelf. Berger back. Matthews with him. Berger drops. Matthews in. Scores. A beauty. And he doubles down for the touchdown. This season. Tarasov. Marshall So. Makes a great move. Numbers down low. Marshall So. And he scores. Yes, sir. Watch this one. Wow. Look at that tight turn. And attack. Straight to the net. Head up. Pulls it to the middle. By the stick. And in the back of the net. What a goal. What an effort by Jonathan Marshall So. The Predators sweep the back-to-backs. They've won three consecutive games. For the Red Wings. There's Tippett. Moves in front. Gave it four. Get a change here. Maintain possession. And a foul now. Howden. Cuts out in front of Mockham. What a good defensive play by Hedl. And he's taken down. Here's Palmieri. He moves in. And he scores. Palmieri drives hard to the net. He went over. Just dirking into the net. But the puck went in first. Peels it back. Marchant. Across. It's there. It's good by Charlie Coyle. The undressed Joey DeCorn. Out high. Cole with a shot. Up high. It's bouncing around. They score. And it's Matias Micheli. Flipped out to center ice. Andrew Mangiaponte up on the rush by himself. Makes a nice move. Gets right in. Scores. Wow. A nice goal by Mangiaponte as he got around his old teammate, TJ Brody, and makes it 2-0 Washington. Bramlin to the line to give for Celebrini. Macklin Celebrini in. He scores. Macklin Celebrini. His first NHL game winning goal. And the Sharks take it in overtime. And Meechkoff the rookie. A break in on goal. And he scores. And that will end it as Meechkoff has won it in overtime. Forsberg drives it ahead with Schmaltz on his tail. Gets his way to the middle. Shoots. He scores. Oh, what a play. Phillip Forsberg will not be stopped. Wenberg. The big wide turn. Wenberg cuts his way in. Wenberg to the net. Wenberg overtime. Bouchard works his way through the middle of the ice. Beautiful drive. Bouchard. What a finish. And it's 1-0 for Edmondson. Loose puff there. Bennett dances away from Hall and gives to Kachuk of the Devil's Line. Kachuk fires across. Boquist. Trying to get it for Boquist against his former team. Ties it. Here's Draisaitl. Waiting. McDavid. Here's Sascha. Waiting. Takes a look. Now shoots. Let's go home, baby! Barkov, incredible. All alone at the far post, it's Rossi. Gibson got a piece of it, but he didn't get it all, and it's 1-0. Yeah, that's Kaprizov again. That makes that pass. Loose puff. Raymond. Good goal. Boquist, Raymond. Holder throws it deep. And he scores. Sundquist deflects it inside of the net. And St. Louis strikes first. Traffic. Gooch gives it up. Shuffles. Score. Gensel, short side. Eichel gains the line. Driving in wide behind the net. Stone with a chance. Score. The captain joins the scoring parade set up by Eichel. And the Golden Knights have put up a six-pack at the Fortress. Andrew Kopp burrowing inside on Brent Kulak. Chipped in for a quick shot. And Detroit will take a 1-0. That's fourth in the NHL. Thompson, quick shot. Scores. Right at the post. Zucker. Sabres on the board trailing 2-1. Pass chopped out in the center. Here comes Cole Caulfield. Maybe a step past Grislyk centers in front. Suzuki scores. Keenan for the line. Shoots. Tipped in front. Coleman scores. He got a piece. And the round is on. As the Flames make it 5-1. All for high sticking at 1657. And he scores. Madigan made the play. Pryor looked like he tipped it in. It's a power play goal. And the Rangers lead 2-1. Calgary to the front. Huberto. Deke shoots. Denied by Allmark. Oh, my goodness. Huberto down in a heap. Allmark the other way. 2-on-1. Stutzler shoots. Sprawled by Bledar. Rebound. Katruk scores. Calgary not happy. How that ended. Konecki has speed. Couturier drives up the ice. They try to get it to him. Right in front. Tipped. And the Flyers steal one. Two tips at point blank range. One at the end of the third. And one at OT. Hudson checks up. Drops it. Suzuki shoots. Knocked down. Rebound. Scores. Nick Suzuki bats it in. And he wins it in overtime. Got it to Kucharov. Centered out in front. And they score. Craven Point. Weighted out. Soros down low. And the Lightning have won this game in overtime. Now Robinson gets it up for Natchez. He scores! Marty Natchez! Stay hot! McCarth. Around for Davis. And what a goal! McKinnon a backhand. Incredible. A blind backhand top shelf. Schwartz in back of the goal. Cut off by Charlie McEvoy. Great job by Shane Wright. Schwartz goes to work. He scores! Now you see it. Now you don't. Jaden Schwartz, a magician with that one. Still, it's a 3-0 Buffalo lead. They've been fine playing a 5-on-5. And here they come again. Right in front. Scores! Whoa. Allen Stein looking fine to make Buffalo a 4-0 leader here with 8-11 to go. Harley. Bounces one and it catches up to Marchman who's in. Spins. Scores! Allison Brooks. Kepe slides it across. Oh, what a move! Kopitar scores off the beautiful set-up. Kopitar for the fourth Kings goal. That day. Here's Couturier. Turns. In front. Score! A redirect by Poehling off the set-up from Couturier. The Flyers pull to him and a goal. Here is Marner working his way in. Down low. Scores! DeLandre from Niles. Keep firing it. Street in front. Scores! What a pass. Finished off by Pacioretty. Duchesne to Lindell with a shot. Stopped. In front. Rebound to Lindell. Puts another fin. Assa Lindell jumping in. Good chuck in. Got that to Reinhardt. In front. Barkov. And he scores. I mean, a beautiful play. Barkov finishes. And, after all, it is 3-0. Dreisadl and McDavid. Dreisadl looking for victory. Over to Bouchard. He's going to back off. McDavid again celebrating. Ditching off. Dreisadl. Dreisadl's 17th career. To McDavid. Bouchard will give it right back to his captain. Dreisadl to McDavid to the net. Stopped from Anderson. Second goal of the game for Conor McDavid. This one on the power play. 2-0 Edmonton. Against Nugent Hopkins up the right-hand side. McDavid took Wollastrom out to the net for Nugent Hopkins. Edmonton extends to a 3-1. For one thing, and that is for about a two-year period, being the only right-handed player on the Detroit Red Wings. Here's McDavid splitting defense. Score right shoulder of Vasilevsky. Edmonton, McDavid's 14th. And the Senators were playing pass and were able to break it up. Great play. It's centerized by Henrique. And now Vasilevsky. Dekaya looks. McKinnon. No one-timer there. Front shot. Score! Nice drive by Casey Middlestead. He had a bunch of options. Just couldn't find the right one to score the goal. McKinnon flying into the zone. McKinnon to the front of the net. Score! Nathan McKinnon turns on the afterburners. A power move to the front of the cage. He delivers the goods. Gives it off for McKinnon. Nate. One-on-three will burst in on his own. McKinnon shoots. Score! Nathan. Individual efforts. Russ takes the pass, looking for help. Brian Russ comes on in. Moves around Madison. Nice move to the net. Russ. Wow. A player or two ahead. Here's an opportunity. Zetterlin right to the front, and he scores. And Zetterlin has gotten San Jose on the board with a power move. We're just about halfway through it. Duchesne turns on the Jets. Duchesne. Score! The question isn't who's going to let me. The question is who's going to stop me. Nobody. Jacob Trubach-Snyder, a right-handed shot playing left defense. That's fired across. Big catch. Score! Oh, man. What a goal by Hayton. Barrett Hayton scoring to give Utah the early lead. And an errant pass off Paul Berry's stick, and the Ovidars can't get it out either. They score! Connor Bedard on the power play as the Ovidars whipped on a couple of chances to clear the zone. Jones gains some more. Bedard with a step. Bedard moves in. Bedard, centering pass. That shot. Score! Bedard, playmaker to Tara Vinen. Just what the Blackhawks needed. The top line strikes. Bedard sets it up, and it's 3-1. Connecting. Trying to get away from Severson. He hands off to Tippett. Tippett cutting to the slot. It's a pass. Frost lands it home. They score. What a setup from Tippett. And it's 2-1. Cates right up the left wing. Cates in across the line. Cates to Tippett for the game. O.T. in O.T. again. And the Flyers come all the way back and win it. Just a really productive players. McCarr sends it in front. Rantanen tucks it in. Meiko Rantanen finishes atop the crease. A late goal for Colorado, and they go up 2-0. Kale McCarr carries back in. Going east-west. Sidestepping Steele. Sent it back across. Score. Rantanen. What a setup from McCarr. And Rantanen has pulled Colorado within a goal. Hughes with room on the near side. Cuts in the middle. Backhander scores. 34 seconds in. Quinn Hughes has the Canucks on the board. And that's broken up by Patterson. Back comes Quinn Hughes. Into the Pittsburgh zone. Hughes drags left. Nice move. Shoots. He scores. 40 seconds into the third. A solo dash by Quinn Hughes. Over the red line. Over the blue. Sillinger to Olivier. To the net. He scores. Matthew Olivier. And the Jackets punch right back. Olivier brings it in. He had a delay while Fantilia to get outside. Olivier out in front. He scores. Forehand to backhand. And Zaka to the front. Pasternak across. And Boston opens the scoring up. A pretty move. Here's McEvoy bringing the puck in. Drop pass. Pasternak. Around the net. Tried to tuck it in. And he did. 26 seconds into the period. Up ice. Kadri. He's got some room. Can be a game and wait to be very successful. If they get a little bit too open. Look out. Kadri. Real goals in back-to-back games. Leafs five goals in their forwards in the last five games. Here's a chance. McBain scores. And there is one to tie the game. A rapid response by the Leafs. And now maybe a break for Tavares catching up to it. Here's Tavares cutting in. Scores. It's a game winner for John Tavares. And the Leafs with a comeback overtime win in Washington. Giving up top for Shea. Chase by Sammy G. Girard got it away. Penalty coming up on the front. It's a breakaway to win. He scores. Seth Girard. What a thrilling finish to this game. Slap me on the tail and call me Judy. What a finish. Oh, what a shot. John, he's a big guy that can skate. Now here's a stretch pass coming in on the back end. He scores. Seth Jarvis. Continues to be special. One too tall. Jack Hughes behind the play. Here he goes. A chance to win it. Scores. The Devils come back winning in overtime on the game winning goal from Jack Hughes. His second of the night. Broken up. Dumped out. Breakaway. Jared McCann has the game on his stick. He scores. Jared McCann. Hey, hey. What do you say? The Kraken win in overtime. And Spurgeon got back and it's the under way. Birdie. All alone. Scores. Takes a Columbus bounce. It's going to be shuffled forward. Breakaway. Sillinger, he's got it to the net. He scores. Short-handed goal. Cole Sillinger. 1-0 Columbus. He hasn't been able to achieve yet. Nine career goals all with Los Angeles. First catch for Conner right in. Scores. Oh, a slick finish from number 81. Creamy set, right? We can make that happen. Yeah. Here's a chance. Hyman. Scores. What a goal. And does it again. Don't touch that guy. Humble behind the net. It comes right up to Carlson. Looking for Crosby. There it is.