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New customers can take these easy steps to win bonus bets for basketball, baseball, hockey, golf and other sports.—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025 That’s what playoff hockey often is about, a goalie stopping an early breakaway, then making another big save without his stick and keeping his team in the night until the goals started — just as Bobrovsky did this night.—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 21 May 2025 According to the advanced hockey statistics website Natural Stat Trick, the Panthers controlled 66.32% of shot attempts and had a 49-30 edge in scoring chances despite being outscored 5-4 when Tkachuk was on the ice at 5-on-5.—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025 Kennedy, a retired manufacturer's sales representative, played hockey at the University of New Hampshire from 1956 to 1959 as the goalie.—Jordan Greene, People.com, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hockey
Word History
Etymology
perhaps from Middle French hoquet shepherd's crook, diminutive of hoc hook, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hōc hook
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