See also: hockey puck one-timer wrist shot backhander
- 1934  Armand Mondou put Canadiens in the lead in the first period when his blazing "slap shot" scored from the penalty spot after Alex Levinsky had tripped Roger Jenkins who was in a scoring position. 
- 1948  Howie Lee and Bob Hassard were going concerns for the Dukes. Lee figured in all four of his team's goals, scoring the first and helping on the next three. George Armstrong got one and Bob Hassard the last pair. Hassard also muffed a couple of good chances, taking time out to steady away for a shot when a slap-shot was in order. 
- 1962  . . . Mahovlich, who unleashed one of his slap-shots from about twenty feet, saw it stopped by Gordie Howe. . . .
- 1985  Balderis opened the scoring at the 1:59 mark of the first period. Tim Krug, playing his second game, tied the score for Team Canada when his unexpected slapshot from the point caught Soviet netminder Yuri Nikitin flat-footed. 
- 1993  Krywko, who scored just three times in 28 regular season games, hammered a low slapshot from the point past David Bell on a power play in the second period, a goal that stood up as the game-winner. 
- 2004  Turning Point: Tied 2-2, Todd Norman ripped a slapshot just inside the post with 3:14 remaining in regulation to give St. FX a 3-2 lead. 
- 2015  We started off with setup. I'm a hockey player, and you ideally want to take a slap shot with the puck positioned toward your back foot. In golf, the ball should be teed up at your front foot. 
2 v. — Hockey, past tense of to slapshoot, which itself is very rare
to forcefully hit the puck towards the net; performing a slapshot.
Type: 4. Culturally Significant — Though less common than the noun form, slapshot is occasionally used as a verb (see quotations).