If there isn’t, you try to make one by faking the goalie out of position. “You take a good look first to see if there’s an opening. “Instead of freezing when you get inside a and find you’ve only got the goalie to beat, you start using your noodle,” New York Rangers veteran Paul Thompson explained to Dink Carroll-the spectacularly named sports columnist-in 1941. Here's an example of some chirping you can aim at a goaltender (slangily known as a tendy): “I’ve seen coupons save more than you.” 3. (OK, sometimes a chirp is also just a profanity-laced insult.) At its best, chirping elicits a laugh in addition to raising the ire of an opposing player. Known in other sports as trash-talking or talking smack, chirping is the verbal art of knocking your opponent off their game with a clever jest, quip, or witticism. ChirpingĬhris Kreider and Bryan Rust, possibly chirping. On the sports page, the term acquires its poetry by way of alliteration: There are " bar-down beauties," " bar-down blasts," and even " blistering, bar-down bombs" courtesy of the equally alliterative Brent Burns of the San Jose Sharks. A bar-down is quite literally a goal scored by having the puck strike the crossbar and deflect down into the net. What bar-down lacks in metaphorical sophistication it makes up for in descriptive clarity. “They are a guide to the grace, the violence, the exhilaration, the history of the game.” Below are 16 such “ special words” to guide you through the playoff season. “The special words of hockey are full of color and interest,” Lewis Poteet, author of Hockey Talk, once wrote. It’s been around since 1892, when the Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston, commissioned “a challenge cup which should be held from year to year by the champion hockey team.” The cup has remained the same ( sort of), but the words we use to describe the game have not. Of all the championship trophies awarded by professional sports leagues in North America, hockey’s Stanley Cup is the oldest.
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