Hey folks. It's been a busy holiday season, what with the end of the semester and then a lengthy education/vacation/what-have-you to Israel (fun fact: my local rink, The Gardens Ice House at Laurel, has more registered players (1300+) and ice sheets (3) than the entire nation of Israel (500 players, 1 sheet)).
In a day or two a real article will be posted, but to get 2010 started off right we've got another entry into the hockey lexicon.
This one comes courtesy of Pascal Leclaire and the rest of the Ottawa Senators via Don Brennan of the Ottawa Sun and I actually read it first in The Peerless Prognosticator's preview for tonight's Capitals-Ottawa game.
The word is Princess Day, and it's something the Caps are actually fairly familiar with. When Alexander Semin or Mike Green take a day off from practice because of bumps and bruises and call it a 'maintenance day,' well the Sens call that taking a Princess Day.
To be fair players on the Senators, and every other team, take them as well, but their term makes it clear how some players view the practice.
Showing posts with label Hockey Lexicon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hockey Lexicon. Show all posts
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Hockey Lexicon 2 - Hat-Flipper, Pearly Gates
Last night my hockey vocabulary expanded quite a bit again. First Mike Knuble introduced me to a new term, and then I picked another one up from the Detroit announcing crew, via NHL on the Fly on the NHL Network.
First up, Hat-flipper: a high clearing attempt or pass launched at a severe angle. Used by Mike Knuble to describe the pass from Brendan Morrison that set up Alexander Ovechkin's second goal.
Usage: Describing his assists, Knuble credited his second one of the night to "a hat-flipper by Brendan, you know, you just got to throw it to that side of the ice, just something good is gonna happen a lot of the time."
The second was pearly gates, used by play-by-play announcer Ken Daniels of FSN Detroit to describe the five-hole. Usage: "Right through the pearly gates!" on a shot that slipped between Chris Osgood's legs.
First up, Hat-flipper: a high clearing attempt or pass launched at a severe angle. Used by Mike Knuble to describe the pass from Brendan Morrison that set up Alexander Ovechkin's second goal.
Usage: Describing his assists, Knuble credited his second one of the night to "a hat-flipper by Brendan, you know, you just got to throw it to that side of the ice, just something good is gonna happen a lot of the time."
The second was pearly gates, used by play-by-play announcer Ken Daniels of FSN Detroit to describe the five-hole. Usage: "Right through the pearly gates!" on a shot that slipped between Chris Osgood's legs.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Hockey Lexicon 1 - Hope Pass, Cobb
Learned a pair of new hockey vocabulary words in the Caps locker room tonight. The first one, from Karl Alzner, actually makes a lot of sense: hope pass. As in "no-look, speculative, I hope there turns out to be someone at the end of this" pass.
The second one, courtesy of Andrew Gordon, is: cobb. As in goose egg, nil, nada, zip. Usage: "We were down four-cobb after about two periods and ended up coming back and winning a big one in overtime" is how Gordon described the game he appeared in last season in NYR when the Caps were down 4-0 and ended up winning 5-4 in OT.
Hope pass is a good one, and I hope to work it into my vocabulary. Cobb makes absolutely no sense, so I'm gonna try even harder to use it on a regular basis.
The second one, courtesy of Andrew Gordon, is: cobb. As in goose egg, nil, nada, zip. Usage: "We were down four-cobb after about two periods and ended up coming back and winning a big one in overtime" is how Gordon described the game he appeared in last season in NYR when the Caps were down 4-0 and ended up winning 5-4 in OT.
Hope pass is a good one, and I hope to work it into my vocabulary. Cobb makes absolutely no sense, so I'm gonna try even harder to use it on a regular basis.
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