Do trick plays have a place in the sport of hockey?  That is a very tough question to answer.  It isn't as easy for a hockey player to disguise or hide the puck in Hockey as easy as it is for a football player in the NFL.  In fact, I'm pretty sure if a trick play involved hiding the puck, the play would be called dead because the ref's lost sight of the puck.  I think there's even a rule in the book stating as such.   In normal gameplay it is probably best left to be as efficient on the play as possible.  As Herb Brooks once said "flow, vision, creativity" helps get the puck from stick, to net.  The main caveat to that is, now if you have an excellent puckhandler on a breakway and they are able to do some sort of "magic",  triple-deke excluded, that would be as far as I would extend the graciousness of a trick play.  In a more relaxed exhibition, like a skills competition or all-star game.  Sure, I think that would be a great place to try and pull off a trick play because at that point its all about entertainment for the fans as opposed to picking up points for the season.