HOCKEY TERMS

POWER PLAY

A power play in NHL hockey is when one team gets an advantage because the other team has a player in the penalty box. This happens when a player breaks the rules and is temporarily out of the game. During a power play, the penalized team has fewer players on the ice, giving the other team an opportunity to score more easily. Power plays are a crucial part of the game, and teams often strategize to make the most of this advantage.

PENALTY KILL

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Penalty kill, also called a PK, refers to when a team is playing with fewer players on the ice due to one or more of their players serving penalties. The shorthanded team aims to prevent the opposing team from scoring while playing with fewer skaters.

The team on the PK can clear the puck down the ice without being called for icing.

The penalty kill lasts for the duration of the penalty or penalties, and the penalized player or players serve their time in the penalty box until their penalty expires. Once the penalty is over, the team returns to full strength. Learn more in Rules ??

"Chipping the puck" when a player quickly lifts the puck off the ice using their stick, typically to go over an opponent's stick or body. It's used when a player wants to move the puck around an opponent, especially along the boards or in tight spaces.

Hat Trick: When a player scores three goals in a single game.
Shorthanded: A team playing with fewer players than the opposing team, often due to penalties.
Shootout: A tiebreaker format where players take turns attempting to score on the opposing goaltender.
Breakaway: When a player with the puck is skating toward the opponent's goal with no defenders except the goaltender between them and the net.
Forecheck: Offensive players pressuring the opponents in their defensive zone to regain possession of the puck.
Backcheck: Defensive players hustling back to their own zone to prevent an opponent's attack.
Crease: The blue-painted area in front of the goal where only the goaltender is allowed.
Boards: The surrounding walls of the hockey rink.
Glove Save: When the goaltender catches the puck with their glove to stop play.
Stickhandling: Controlling the puck using the hockey stick.
Dump and Chase: A strategic play where a team shoots the puck into the offensive zone and chases after it to regain possession.

Penalty Shot

When

A penalty shot is awarded when a player from the attacking team on a clear breakaway is impeded in such a way that they lose a scoring opportunity.

Overtime

Overtime is an extra period of play that is added to the end of a regular game if the score is tied. The purpose of overtime is to determine a winner when a game ends in a tie during the regulation time.

Duration: regular-season overtime is a five-minute, sudden-death period. If no team scores, the game goes to a shootout.

Format: regular-season overtime is 3-on-3 play, so each team has only three skaters (plus the goaltender) on the ice. This creates more open ice and scoring opportunities.

Shootout (only during regular-season): If neither team scores during the overtime period, the game goes to a shootout. Each team selects three players to take penalty shots against the opposing goaltender. If one team scores more goals in the shootout, they win the game.

Playoff Overtime: 5-on-5 play, so each team has only three skaters (plus the goaltender) on the ice. In playoff games, overtime periods are 20 minutes each. The game continues in 20-minute overtime periods until a team scores and wins the game.

Sudden Death: Means the first team to score wins the game immediately.

Blue line

Center ice

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Slap shot

Wrist shot

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