Eight Simple Terms in Hockey
Hockey is a game full of its own lingo and wide spread language. These eight terms are thrown around constantly in the play by play and in the sports reports, making them terms any aspiring hockey fan should have a firm grasp of.
Hockey, like any sport, is a sport full of its own lingo. A handful of phrases pop up that get used off and on every day to describe a particular part of the game and if you’re not in the know, you’re missing out on a good part of the box score. And if you’re trying to cover the hockey point spreads, you’d better cover the hockey jargon.
Let’s start with the easy ones. Everyone knows that A Save is when a goalie stops the puck, keeping the other team from scoring a goal. A Hat Trick is a matter of scoring three goals in a single game by one player. But, what about a Natural Hat Trick. When a player pulls off one of those, meaning they knock in three consecutive goals in a game (incredibly uncommon by the way), you’d better hope it was in the point spread to start with.
Clearing the Puck is when a team pulls the puck away from the goal back to center ice, away from the goal. A Power Play is when a team is short a player because they’ve entered the penalty box, for anything from high sticking to a knock down brawl on the ice.
Speaking of brawling, don’t forget one of the best new terms in hockey lingo, Cementhead. A cementhead is a player who is better at fighting than actually playing hockey. For any team trying to cover that coveted hockey point spread, a cementhead is probably not going to help their case (though he might energize the fans a bit).
Two more actual game related terms are Pulling the Goalie and Deke. Pulling the goalie is fairly self-explanatory. Often occurring when a team is losing and there is very little time left, the goalie is taken from the game and replaced with an extra offensive player, in essence creating an advantage on the other end of the ice.
The deke is the act of faking out an opponent and making them go where you want on the ice. Such a move is hard to pull off because of the nature of skating, requiring a natural flow and skill that cannot be read easily on the ice.
Hockey is a game full of its own terms and lingo, many of which have been adopted in every day life. It’s best to have a grasp on them while you can, before you look like a fool. Hockey point spreads or no, you’d better at least understand when your buddy at the bar asks what you thought of that incredible natural hat trick the night before.
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