Wrister

In the final minute of the first, Valiquette reached up to catch Colby Armstrong's wrister from the left circle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Campoli tied it 2: 31 later with a wrister from the point that found its way through traffic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Arguably the best chance Atlanta had to stay within reach of the lead came 11: 51 into the second when Ilya Kovalchuk's wrister from the left circle went under Osgood's pads but sailed just beyond the right goalpost. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bergenheim found space under the goalie's left arm with a wrister from the slot, and Mason left a rebound of Hilbert's shot that came to defenseman Mark Streit, who found Hilbert with a pass for the putaway. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Erik Christensen opened the scoring 5: 04 into the first with his fourth goal, a wrister from the left circle sneaked under Halak's pads. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Defenseman Rob Scuderi forced overtime when he beat Gerber with a wrister from the left circle at 3: 56 in the third period. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ward padded the lead at 1: 25 of the third with a wrister from the edge of the left circle on an assist from Martin Erat and Dan Hamhuis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kovalchuk, who has 25 goals and 14 assists in his last 29 games, made it 4-2 with a hard wrister from the right circle near the midway point of the third. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But Legwand tied it late in the session with a wrister from the edge of the crease. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Blues added two more with the man advantage in the second period, with Tkachuk making it 2-0 at 6: 37, redirecting McDonald's centering feed past Backstrom, and Perron roofing a wrister from the left circle at 8: 08 to make it 3-0. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Vanek's wrister from the top of the slot 1: 06 later made it 2-2. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After Kozlov made it 2-0 with his 20th goal with 4: 17 to go in the first, rookie Anssi Salmela used a backhanded wrister from the top of the slot for his first NHL goal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With 7: 21 remaining, Okposo's ninth goal, a wrister from the bottom of the right circle, gave New York a 5-3 lead and helped Danis compose himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But Khabibulin made 12 first-period saves and Chicago tied it at 1 with 37 seconds left in the first period on Patrick Kane's wrister from the left circle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He then slid the puck to rookie Jake Voracek in the high slot, with Voracek backhanding a pass to Peca for a hard wrister from the right dot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kennedy, who also scored 40 seconds into the first period in front of 13,699 at Stockholm's soldout Globe Arena, beat Ottawa goalie Martin Gerber with a wrister from the left circle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He hit the right goal post on a breakaway before his wrister from the right boards beat Khabibulin, but crossed the goal line two-tenths of a second too late. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Little opened the scoring at 4: 40 of the first with a wrister from the left side of the crease. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Phoenix was even quieter in the third, failing to record its first shot until Keith Yandle's soft wrister from the outside of the left circle with 4: 14 to go. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thrashers rookie defenseman Zach Bogosian's seventh goal, a wrister from the top of the right circle, forced a 1-1 tie 8: 36 into the third. ❋ Unknown (2008)