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Ice hockey
Ice Hockey is a team sport played on an ice rink in which players skate on ice skates while using a wooden stick to hit a rubber puck into the opposing team's goal. Hockey is a full contact sport and full body padding must be worn.
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Overtime loss
Sports; Ice hockey
The result for a team that loses a game in overtime that was tied after regulation; this category was created starting with the 1999-2000 season and is worth 1 point in the standings.
Passout
Sports; Ice hockey
A pass by an attacking player from behind his opponents net or goal line to a teammate in front of the net.
Patrick Division
Sports; Ice hockey
With the Adams Division made up the Wales Conference until the 1992-93 season; renamed the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference starting with the 1993-94 season.
Penalty box
Sports; Ice hockey
An area with a bench just off the ice, behind the sideboards outside the playing area where penalised players serve their penalty time.
Penalty killer
Sports; Ice hockey
A player expert at backchecking and keeping or gaining control of a loose puck under difficult circumstances who is trained to break up a power play when his team is shorthanded.
Poke cheque
Sports; Ice hockey
A quick jab or thrust to the puck or opponents stick to knock the puck away from him.
Power play
Sports; Ice hockey
An attack by a team at full strength against a team playing one man (or two men) shorthanded because of a penalty (or penalties) which resulted in a player on the opposing team receiving penalty-box ...