If you’re new to hockey and have trouble keeping up with a conversation because you’re confused by the slang, here’s a guide to help you.
Barn – Hockey Rink/Arena
Bender – A lousy player who always seems to have his ankles bent.
Between the Pipes – In the net.
Biscuit – A Puck.
Breezers – Hockey pants.
Brain Bucket (or just Bucket) – A helmet.
Celly – A celebration, usually done after scoring a goal
Coast to Coast – When a player carries the puck from his own net all the way to his opponent’s and scores.
Chippy – Getting irritated with one another, usually on the brink of fighting.
Chirp – To talk trash.
Cherry Picker – Player who hangs out in his opponents zone awaiting a long pass.
Dangle – Misdirecting an opponent while handling the puck. See deke.
Deke – A fake out, perhaps derived from the word “decoy”.
Drop – To leave the puck behind or pass it to a trailing teammate.
Gongshow – A rough, intense game.
Grinder – A player who digs deep, hustles to make plays.Usually better known for checking and disruption rather than scoring ability. Like a lineman in football, he works hard but rarely gets recognized for his hard work.
Enforcer – A player who takes on the role of discouraging the opposing team from harassing his goal scoring teammate by imposing the threat of physical harm.
Fisticuffs – A fight.
Five Hole – The area in between the goalie’s legs.Hash Marks – The lines coming out of the faceoff circles providing a guide to where players should be lined up.
Hat Trick – Scoring three goals in one game.
Hoser – A loser. Orginated from the pre-Zamboni days when the losing team had to hose off the ice.
Laser – A quick, well-placed shot.
Light the Lamp – Score a goal so the siren flashes.
Mucker – A physical player who lacks finesse but gets the job done by forechecking, working the boards, etc. He is not afraid to do the dirty work. Usually used interchangeably or in connection with grinder.
One-timer – Taking a hard shot right off the pass without pausing to receive it.
Pipe-fitter/Plumber – See mucker and grinder.
Playing the Point – When a defender positions himself in front of the blue line near the boards in order to keep the puck in his offensive zone.
Puck Bunny – A girl who is more interested in getting the player’s attention than watching the game.
Pylon – Skater who just stands still and is as easy to skate around as an orange cone.
Schoolyard Puck – Pick-up hockey often played in a schoolyard, usually on inline skates.
Shinny – Pick-up hockey usually played on a frozen pond.
Sieve – A goalie with a lot of “holes” meaning he allows a lot of goals.
Sin Bin – The penalty box.
Slapper – A slap shot.
Slot – The middle area in front of the net.
Sniper – Player with an accurate shot who often scores from a distance.
Top Shelf – To put a goal in the upper part of the net.
Tripod – A player who has to balance himself with his stick.
Woody – A wooden stick
Wrap around – To come from behind the net and squeeze it past the goalie.
Wrister – A wrist shot.
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Geno – Goal
Woody – Wooden Stick
Fishbowl – Huge visor that covers that usually covers the whole face
Apple – Assist
Face wash… when they rub their gloves in a players face.
Cheese – going roof. Aka, roof daddy or top cheddar, also referred to pulling the string, or going upstairs, goin shelf etc
Sauce – pass flighty off the ice but very controlled
Banks – the quick player with scoring ability (mighty ducks reference)
Conway – the quitter (mighty ducks reference)
Goon – the scrapper/fighter
Dangles – unreal handling of the rubber(puck)
Way too many too type. I could go on for weeks
puck bunny.
whats your definition for that ?
LOLOL.
Truue Budd.
If Banks refers to anything it should be Mystery Alaska, Connor Banks.
Duster- player who sits on the bench and collects dust
Dust Bunny- A girl who dates/gets with the dusters on the team.
Grocery stick- the player that sits on the bench who seperates the forward from the defense
Gordie go-hard- the player who goes absolutely hard at anything he does
Steezey- a player who has incredible style and knows a lot about the sport of hockey
chunking – a fluttery saucer pass
– He’s really chunking his sauces today
Toilet bowl – Large, poofy, white neck guard made out of foam. usually warn after a serious neck injury.
Anyone know a term for someone who wears a neck guard over the age of 10?
Your Question:
Anyone know a term for someone who wears a neck guard over the age of 10?
Yes –
A smart player 🙂
who has witnessed a kid at his rink get taken out in an ambulance after getting slashed in the neck.
It is a required piece of equipment for all kids in Canada.
Canadian… they all do
dusty- collects dust on the bench
top sheds- top of the net
bar eazy- hitting the crossbar and having the puck go in the net
Bar Down -scoring off the crossbar
Tow Drag- using the toe of your stick to draw the puck back when the opponent attempts to swat the puck away.
Plug- Someone thats completly useless
Pracky- Practice
Stick wrinkle – pretty much the same as a toe drag but I hear Don Cherry say a lot on Coaches Corner
twig-hockey stick
flow: unreal long hockey player hair (usually worn with a hat)
splinters: someone who sits on the bench and gets splinters
snipe: a sick shot
snizzy twine: sniping the puck so it hits the netting so hard it bounces out
dome: as in to dome a goalie (score on them a lot)
Duster: A lousy player with very bad hands.
Goon: A player with bad skills but is a big hitter.
sauce
Dummied
Sewered
shorty- short-handed goal
Deaner- Someone with an unreal shot and “deans” is just good at everything
Sauce- Saucer pass
Dirty Flow- Hair slicked back, and looks sick with a hat, long hair
Goon- Cheap dirty player
Chirp- Trash talking
Smitty- Dirty, Smelly, Sweaty, player with a beard
Bucket- Helmet
Bender Tender- Tender who is a bender and sucks
Top Cheese- Top shelf
Ripper- Slapshot/ hard shot
Báckhand- crazy good backhand
Dome- Getting hit in the head
Dangle- Crazy good hands and amazing at dekeing
Celly- Celebration after scoring
Duster- Someone who collects dust from sitting on the bench
Chippy- Anger problems and is cheap
Puck Bunny- Hockey girl who is sluttish and likes hockey players
PuckSeason- Hockey Season
geno- bar down or post in
kicker/target- goalie
Gordie Howe Hat Trick…A goal, assist and fight in a single game.
Gordie only recorded two. Brendan Shanahan holds the record with 17!!
Tucked – scored a goal
Gino – a goal
Ghost – invisible out on the ice, not doing a damn thing “F*ckin’ 23 is a GHOST out there tonight!”
Please give me your definition of a river skater.
Thank you
sticks in… Choosing sides
i heard “chaw” used and i haven’t heard it before. Anyone know what that means?
Chaw means doing chewing tobbacco
Chew
Rocket – hot girl
What does Muzzies and Lip Bombs mean? Lol
Muzzies and Lip bombs means mustaches
Lip bombs are a big pinch of chew
any definitions for enterprise boys?
boomer-slapshot
clapper-slapshot
twig-stick
mitts-gloves
boots-skates
tendy/tender-goalie
kicker-goalie
cage-net
birdcage-huge cage
Puck Sluuuuuuuts – They’re the BEST.
What is the term “barred down”?
Bar down – When you shoot the puck and it ricochets off the cross bar and goes down into the goal.
I can’t believe these aren’t in here!!
Gino: Means a goal, when a player scores.
Apple: Assist
Tilly: Fight
Puck: Hockey; For example “I play puck.”
I swear I say Gino and apple everdaaaay..
wheels – skates
bucky – helmet
lip burger/daddy/candy – chew
weapon – stick
wand – stick
lumber – stick
floor cheese/ched – puck doesn’t leave the ice
bender/bendy – bad player
handles – gloves/hands
geno – goal
apple – assist
apple tree – multiple assists in a game
jizz shield – shield
T bomb – slap shot
puttin on a clinic – a player dangles the whole team showing them how its done
flop – tounges hanging out of skates
flow – raging hair
lettuce – the flow coming out of the back of a helmet or hat
gordy/gordy go hard/gordon bombay/bombay – a kid who is always going hard
this is a response for jerus’s question…….. smart
Kronwalled verb: to smash, level; to devastate, demolish, ravage, or destroy completely. To reduce to uselessness.
Peanut Butter – goal scored that hits the inside of the top of the net, aka the roof. derived from the fact that peanut butter gets stuck to the roof of your mouth and a shot that goes peanut butter hits the roof of the net
Pinch
Top titty G-note city: Goin top shelf on the tendie
broad – a piece of meat with a hole in it
What does it mean when a player says wheel? Like I wheel hard?
Smoke show 9- It can mean 2 things. During a game when a player has the puck and is going coast to coast or whatever and you hear someone say, “wheel, wheel, wheel!” it means that they basically need to skate their ass off cause they have a perfect opp for that geno. Off the ice…when a player talks about wheeling…it basically means getting the girls.
Wheel- to skate hard/fast
also,
Wheel- pick up some rockets at the bar
Is there any term for a goal from scratch, almost accidental?
A Patty Kane. More specifically when the shot comes from behind the goal line and goes in. In honor of that infamous goal in the 2010 Stanley Cup winning goal… Still haunts me to this day
Bar down- a shot that hits the crossbar and goes straight down for a goal
Beauty?? Sadly I do play hockey but I dunno what it means… lol
Bookmark- player who sits in between the offense and defense all game and doesnt leave the bench
wheels, jets, burners, – skating fast. (exp. that dudes got wheels)
tilt- hard played game or a fight
scrum- when a group of players are digging in the corner for the puck. or when a lot of shoving is happening after the play.
wheel house- area in front of player to pass to so that he can take a good one timer.
shifty- someone that can deke really well.
stinky glove, face wash- rubbing your glove in a players face. (exp. he gave him the stinky glove.)
taking a number- getting even with a player by clean checking later in the game rather than taking a penalty for retaliating.
Bar-Down- Shooting the crossbar and having it go into the net to score.
Salad- like flow, he’s got the sickest salad in the league
Duster (dusty) – sucks at playing or puckhandling
Flow – Greased back hairstyle
I can’t believe no one has said this one
Lumber- stick
Clapper/ clap shot- a slap shot
Half clapper top cheddar- a half slap shot that goes top shelf.
Hat- helmet