What is a muffin in hockey?

Muffin: a shot that should have been stopped after wavering back and forth in the air all the way to the net. Pillows: the goaltender's leg pads. Plumber: maybe not the best player on the team, but a hard working player who does the dirty work in the corners.
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What is a pizza in hockey?

Pizza: A brutal pass up the middle of the ice intercepted by the opposing team. "Bidini is serving up more pizzas tonight than Little Caesar's."
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What is a tilly in hockey?

Snarl: The step before the donnybrook/dropping the mitts/tilly/fisticuffs. Tilly: Oh look, it's another word for a fight!
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What is cheese in hockey?

C. Celly: a celebration after a goal. Cheese: the top shelf of the net (see, top cookies) Chel: the EA Sports NHL video game. Cherry picker: a player who stands behind the opposing team's defense in hopes for a breakaway.
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What's an apple in hockey?

An apple: an assist.
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What does peanut butter mean in hockey?

Peanut Butter

Former Chicago Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville helped popularize the exclamation “peanut butter!” to refer to a goal scored in the top of the net in a 2015 television documentary.
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What is a turtle in hockey?

"The Code" of NHL fighters includes this maxim: don't turtle. For those who aren't familiar with the term, turtling is when a player initiates a fight and then covers up like a turtle going into his shell without actually throwing a punch.
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What does dirty dangles mean?

MORE: Men's ice hockey national championship history | USCHO rankings | Scores. Dangle: when a player is a deke (or decoy) by making moves to fake out the goalie or opposing player; also used to describe the act of stick-handling. Dirty: term to describe an outstanding deke.
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What does butter mean in hockey?

Butter. but·ter • /ˈbə-tər/ To describe something smooth, such as a play or a player's hands. “Malcoms hands are butter-y on the ice.”
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What is a flamingo in hockey?

Flamingo refers to a player who lifts one leg to avoid blocking a shot; a dastardly dead if ever there was one.
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What are Mohawks in hockey?

A common mohawk turn is the forward inside open mohawk. In this turn, the skater faces into the circle and the free foot is brought to the instep of the skating foot at an angle of 90° or more, before being placed on the ice on a backward inside edge during the transfer of weight.
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What are chicklets in hockey?

Chiclets: teeth, usually used when describing the lack thereof for certain players. Chirp: trash talk, directed toward an opponent, their bench or the refs.
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What is a dinger in hockey?

Dinger (noun) – Refers to the chew a hockey player enjoys at any time besides game time. Duster (noun) – Refers to someone who is awful at hockey.
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What does soup mean in hockey?

Due to his surname being the same as a world-famous food corporation, Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jack Campbell will forever be tied to soup. “Soup” has become the go-to way for friends and fans to refer to the 29-year-old Leafs goalie who has been playing lights-out hockey nearly every night this season.
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What is hot dogging in hockey?

Hotdogging – the act of showboating after making a strong play or scoring a goal.
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What is a tomahawk in hockey?

Tomahawk – high reverse backhand

With the high reverse backhand you are upright with the ball close to your feet. How you hold the stick is also important, and you need to keep your head above the ball.
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What is jam in hockey?

Sauce should not be confused with “jam.” Jam is grit, effort, persistence—sheer cussedness.
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What is mustard in hockey?

The mustard helps hockey players with cramps, Mark Letestu said. Source: Getty Images. After Mark was caught sucking on a mustard packet in a 2019 Jets-Oilers game, the Alberta native explained his habit, saying the mustard gives him relief from muscle cramps.
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What does snipe celly mean?

A very commonly used term that most hockey fans should already know that refers to an insane shot that places the puck in a tiny space for a goal. A sniper is a player who can do this on a regular basis. Example: Dangle, Snipe, Celly, the perfect combination.
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What does Celly mean slang?

Noun. celly (plural cellies) (prison slang) A cellmate. (prison slang) One's room of incarceration, jailcell. quotations ▼
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What does big shoots mean?

: a person of consequence or prominence.
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What does octopus mean in hockey?

Having eight arms, the octopus symbolized the number of playoff wins necessary for the Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup. The practice started April 15, 1952, when Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers and storeowners in Detroit's Eastern Market, hurled an octopus into the rink of Olympia Stadium.
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What is bully in hockey?

bully-off in British English

hockey. 1. a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball.
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What does sauce mean in hockey?

Sauce – Short for Saucer pass. Sacuer Pass – A pass in which the puck is passed to another player such that it flies in the air like a flying saucer. This makes the pass very difficult to intercept by opposing players but it will still land flat on the ice making it simple to control for the receiving player.
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