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Word: pucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the same concept as a punt in football. There is only one difference: in hockey you are punished for your punt. The puck is brought back to your end of the ice before play can begin again...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Hic, Haec, Hockey | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...Biscuit--The biscuit is the puck. I guess they call it this because it is round and cylindrical like a biscuit. I can find no similarities, however, between a puck and a biscuit. I mean, come on, a puck is rock hard, and where I come from a biscuit is a fluffy, buttery roll you use to sop up grits and gravy...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Hic, Haec, Hockey | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...Icing--Punting the puck. As best I can tell, icing occurs when you send the puck from your side of center ice to the other end in order to get into a better defensive position...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Hic, Haec, Hockey | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...Crimson controlled play and struck just 56 seconds into the match. Sophomore A.J. Mleczko spun around the Friar net and dumped the puck in front of the goal to junior Stacy Kellogg, who fired it into the mesh...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: W. Hockey Splits Pair in Rhode Island | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

Already tired from the previous game and still suffering from not having enough players to field a complete line-up, Harvard didn't have the legs to keep up with Brown. The Bears were able to control the puck for long periods of time in the Harvard end and make line changes, while the Crimson fatigued very quickly...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: W. Hockey Splits Pair in Rhode Island | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

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