puck-handling

See also: puckhandling and puck handling

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

1921, puck +‎ handling.

Noun

puck-handling (uncountable)

(ice hockey) The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
- 1921, March 12, Boston Daily Globe, p 6:
  Dazzling puck handling by the visitors, but college men break up swift attacks. [headline]
- 1965, May 15, Kingston Whig-Standard, p 9:
  […] Flyers dominated the game with superior skating, checking, passing and puck-handling.

Related terms

puckhandler

References

“puck-handling” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
“puck-handling” in the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, W.J. Gage, 1967.

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