backcheck
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
backcheck (third-person singular simple present backchecks, present participle backchecking, simple past and past participle backchecked)
- (transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
- 1984, Walter Gretzky, Charles Taylor, Jim Taylor, Gretzky : from the Back Yard Rink to the Stanley Cup, page 128:
- Any time you've got a guy who can score 63 goals, let him, and find someone else to backcheck.
- 1984, Walter Gretzky, Charles Taylor, Jim Taylor, Gretzky : from the Back Yard Rink to the Stanley Cup, page 128:
- (intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
- 1994, Jack Falla, Hockey: Learn to Play the Modern Way, page 134:
- 2004, Bruce Driver, Clare Wharton, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey, page 81:
- A smart defensive player knows when to backcheck the puck carrier and when to backcheck to cover an open player.
- Hockey has no greater test of your heart and intensity than your willingness to backcheck, particularly at the end of a sustained attack when the other team has suddenly come up with the puck and you are feeling exhausted.
- 2007 March 26, Lynn Zinser, “Rangers Stay Cool in Another Pressure-Filled Win”, in New York Times[1]:
- It’s been a real team effort, a commitment to defense and backchecking by everybody.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
check an opponent near one's own goal
Noun[edit]
backcheck (plural backchecks)
- The act of backchecking.
- That was a great backcheck, Gordie.
Translations[edit]
an instance of backchecking
See also[edit]
Checking (ice hockey) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia