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The superstitious practice of a hockey player not shaving off his facial hair during the playoffs, consequently growing a beard. plus-minus A hockey statistic that can apply to a player or an offensive or defensive line indicating whether they were on the ice when the opposing team scored (a minus) or on the ice when their team scored (a plus).
This is a list of nicknames in the sport of ice hockey. Most are related to professional ice hockey such as the National Hockey League. A few notable nicknames from the Canadian major junior hockey leagues, the U.S. colleges, and national teams are excluded.
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Ice hockey portal; This is a category for terminology relating to ice hockey. Pages in category "Ice hockey terminology" The following 107 pages are in this category ...
Fighting skills can allow insufficiently talented or smaller players to play in leagues where their hockey skills alone would not have otherwise granted them admission. [2] Enforcers sometimes take boxing lessons to improve their fighting. [2] Some players combine aspects of the enforcer role with strong play in other areas of the game.
Getty Images Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others.
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
hockey hockey played with a ball on grass (field hockey) * hockey played on a hard surface (e.g. concrete) or indoors hockey played on ice with a puck * hog (dialect, also hogg) a yearling sheep adult pig, esp. domesticated, castrated male reared for slaughter to take more than one's fair share of something