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Attacking Zone |
The zone where the opponent's goal is located |
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Back Check |
Checking an opponent while skating backwards towards one's own goal |
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Back Pass |
A pass back to a teammate trailing the play. |
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Blue Line |
The blue line dividing center ice (neutral zone) from the end zones |
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Blind Pass |
A pass to a teammate who is blocked, or partially blocked, from the player's view |
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Boarding |
A minor penalty called when a player intentionally slams another player into the boards |
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Boards |
The wooden wall surrounding the rink that keeps the puck in play |
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Body Check |
To hit an opponent with your body, to block him or take him out of the play |
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Breakaway |
When a player is clear of the defense and can go towards goal unimpeded (also called a fast break) |
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Butt Ending |
A major penalty called when a player hits his opponent with the butt end of the shaft of his hockey stick |
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Center |
The center or middle player on the forward line of a hockey team |
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Center Ice |
The neutral area between the two blue lines |
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Center Line |
The red stripe that extends across the ice, midway between the two goals |
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Charging |
A minor penalty called when a player takes more than two steps before checking an opponent |
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Checking |
Using body contact to prevent an opposing player from gaining an advantageous position on the ice |
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Clearing the puck |
Getting the puck away from the area near your own goal; on a power play, sending the puck out of your own defensive zone |
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Crease |
A 4 foot by 8 foot area in front of each goal in which opposing players may not stand unless they have the puck |
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Cross Checking |
A minor penalty called when a player drives the shaft of his stick into an opponent while holding on to the stick with both hands |
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Defensemen |
The two players who play in front of the goaltender and attempt to keep opposing players from getting close-in shots on the goal |
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Deke |
A deceptive move or fake used to get around an opponent |
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Delay Of Game |
A minor penalty called when a player deliberately delays the game, either by shooting the puck out of the rink in his defensive zone or by covering up the puck with his closed hand.?Also called when a player is found to be using an illegal stick. |
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Delayed Penalty |
A penalty that has not yet resulted in a stoppage of play because the team that will have the man advantage is in possession of the puck.?Play continues until the team being penalized touches the puck.?If a goal is scored before play stops, the penalty is waived off. |
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Drop Pass |
A pass where the player carrying the puck at top speed towards an opponent's goal suddenly leaves it motionless for a trailing teammate to either shoot on goal or continue the attack |
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Elbowing |
A minor penalty called when a player strikes an opponent with his elbow |
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Face Off |
When the referee drops the puck between two opposing players to start or resume the game after a stoppage in play |
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Fighting |
A major penalty called when players drop their gloves and engage in a fist fight |
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Flip Pass |
A pass to a teammate where the puck is lifted slightly off the ice |
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Forechecking |
When a offensive player checks an opponent in his own end in order to take the puck away to continue the attack and prevent them from moving up ice towards their goal |
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Forwards |
The three players on the offensive line (center and two wings) who are expected to score most of a team’s goals |
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Freezing the puck |
To pin the puck against the boards with either your skate, stick or body to cause a stoppage in play resulting in a face off. |
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Goal cage |
Another name for the net or goal |
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Goalkeeper |
The player who guards the goal, also called the goalie or netminder |
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Game Misconduct |
A penalty resulting in the player being suspended for the remainder of the game |
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Goal Line |
The red stripe at each end of the rink extending from each of the side boards. |
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Hat Trick |
Three goals scored by a player in one game |
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Head manning the puck |
Passing to a teammate moving up the ice ahead of the player making the pass |
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High Sticking |
A minor penalty called when a player carries his or her stick above their shoulder, or hits an opponent with it, whether unintentionally or intentionally |
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Hip Check |
A legal check where a player sticks out his hip to check an opposing player |
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Holding |
A minor penalty called when a player uses his or her hands to hold an opponent or their stick |
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Hooking |
A minor penalty called when a player uses the blade of his stick to grab or impede an opponent's progress from behind |
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Hoisting the puck |
Lifting the puck off the ice by flipping it with the blade of the stick |
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Icing |
A non-penalty infraction called when a player shoots or passes the puck from his team's side of the center line across the opponent’s goal line without the puck being touched by a player from his team or the opponent’s |
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Interference |
A minor penalty called when a player checks an opponent who is not in possession of the puck |
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Kick Shot |
An illegal shot where the player kicks the blade of his stick as it carries the puck |
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Killing A Penalty |
When a team survives a penalty without giving up a goal |
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Line |
The three forwards on the ice (center and two wings) |
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Major Penalty |
A five minute penalty |
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Match Penalty |
A penalty resulting in a player's suspension for the remainder of the game |
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Matching Penalties |
Penalties given to players from each team at the same time |
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Minor Penalty |
A two minute penalty |
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Misconduct Penalty |
A ten-minute penalty against a player, not the team (?unlike a minor penalty, the team does not play a man down or “shorthanded? |
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Neutral Zone |
The area between the two blue lines in the center of the ice (also called center ice) |
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Odd Man Rush |
When the number of offensive players heading into the attacking zone is greater than the number of defenders (such as a ? on 2?or ? on 1? |
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Offsides |
A non-penalty infraction called when either (a) a player enters the attacking zone ahead of the puck, or (b) a player receives a pass over two lines, either the blue or red line (a “two line pass?.?In either case, the linesman whistles the play offside and stops play for a face-off outside of the guilty team's attacking zone.?It is the position of the player's skates that determines whether he is offside: only if both skates have completely crossed the line in question (red or blue) is that player judged to be in the zone. |
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Pass Out |
A pass from a player behind the opponent's goal to a teammate in front of the goal |
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Penalty Box |
The bench outside the playing area where penalized players go to serve their penalty time.?Colloquially referred to sometimes as the “sin bin.?/p> |
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Penalty Shot |
A rare, but exciting play, in which a player is given a free shot at goal, with only the goalie defending.?Usually called when a player is hit or tripped from behind when she has a clear breakaway. |
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Poke check |
A legal check where a player pokes or jabs with her stick at the puck in possession of an opponent in order to dislodge it and take it away |
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Power play |
When a team has a one or two man advantage due to penalties, giving them a good chance to score |
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Puck |
The hard vulcanized rubber disc that players try to shoot past the goalie for a goal. |
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Puck shy |
When a player flinches away from the puck |
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Ragging The Puck |
When a player kills of penalty time against his time by circling back towards his own goal while in possession of the puck |
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Red Light |
The light behind each goal that a goal judge activates to signify a goal (in other words that the entire puck has crossed the goal line inside the goal posts). |
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Rink |
The playing surface of ice |
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Roughing |
A minor penalty called for unnecessary rough play |
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Save |
A blocked shot by the goalie, preventing what would otherwise be a goal |
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Shorthanded Goal |
A goal scored by a team while it is playing shorthanded due to a penalty |
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Shift |
The period of time a particular forward or defensive line is on the ice |
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Slap Shot |
A hard shot in which player takes a big swing before hitting the puck with the blade of his stick |
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Slashing |
A minor penalty called when a player swings his stick at an opponent |
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Spearing |
A major penalty called when a player jabs the blade of his stick at an opponent |
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Stickhandling |
Controlling and moving the puck along the ice |
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Sweep check |
A legal check where a player goes down on one knee and sweeps his stick along the ice in order to take the puck away from an attacking player |
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Tripping |
A minor penalty called when a player pulls down an opponent with his stick or hand or by sticking out his leg. |
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Wing |
A forward who lines up near the middle of the rink, and to either side of the center |
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Wrist Shot |
A quick, accurate shot made by snapping the wrists as the puck hits the blade of the stick |
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Zamboni |
The machine that is used to prepare a new “sheet?of ice before a game or between periods |
