Hockey Prompt

Trick plays are especially hard to pull off in hockey given the free-flowing, rapid, and random nature of the sport where its hard to get the right opportunity to execute the complex maneuvers required in a trick play. You certainly do see set plays in hockey, typically in more controlled situations such as after a faceoff, on the power play, or during a breakout, but even then its hard for any play to last longer than a few passes and I doubt these plays would count as 'trick' plays like the hidden ball trick in baseball or a set corner routine in soccer. However, even if there were a viable trick play at the highest level of hockey, I do think it would take a while for it to actually get implemented in the NHL, given how old school the league and its coaches tend to be. After all, it somehow took until last season for the first Michigan goal to be scored.