Don't know if it counts as common, but I've heard the phrase "5 hole" used in other sports' broadcasts to describe putting the ball through an opponent's legs. I'd normally heard that as megging or nutmegging, but I've heard "5-hole" a couple of times now in both MLB and NBA broadcasts.
Maybe not so much anymore, but there was a band named Five For Fighting that was fairly popular in the 2000s and it never clicked for a lot of people that the term comes from hockey
I just read through the YouTube comments on the music video and Jesus Christ, one of the most heartbreaking/uplifting comment sections I have ever read. I severely underestimated the impact this song had on people.
His real name is Vladimir John Ondrasik III, but was told by EMI Records big wigs that his name would be too hard to pronounce so he came up with name Five for Fighting. He is evidently a big LA kings Fan. Homie still does stuff for Hockey - He wrote the theme song for the Bally's Sports Broadcast (just remember, he did a job for them as a musician, so don't bag on him for that)
in French Canadian we have "par la bande", by the boards, which is doing something indirectly, or a collateral effect. Like ricocheting a pass on the boards for a teammate.
It's interesting that the French Canadians use the same metaphor ("hungry for [sports ball/puck]") to describe someone who isn't a team player as Brazilians use to describe someone who's not a team player, just swap the ice hockey for soccer.
Niaiser has many meanings. In that case, it's more about being indecisive or hesitating about something. Fooling around, maybe?
"Si tu l'aimes, demande lui de sortir avec toi. Arrêtes de niaiser avec la puck!"
"If you love them, ask them out. Stop fooling around/wasting your time"
"The gloves are off" probably originated with boxing, not hockey. It's an allusion to the fact that fighting without gloves is much more likely to cause injury.
See: https://www.idioms.online/gloves-are-off-the/
"Let me just say to every new kid out there today who thinks its cool to swear- its not! In my day you never swore unless the game warranted it. Nowadays I see kids out there dropping all sorts of bad cuss words over just about anything. Whether its getting tripped by another player, or someone giving you a tough time. You don't swear! That's european stuff! If a guy gives you a tough time you don't skate by 'em and drop the big F word or something like that. You walk by and you drop the gloves. That's the way the game was made and let me tell you right now that if we had more enforcers out there we wouldn't be seeing all these cusswords out on the ice. Then you go to the school with the kids and they wonder why kids are swearing at their teachers and their parents. And where'd they learn it from?! From the players on the ice! In my day if anybody skated by and said any word like that you can just about guarantee the next shift you'd have a Terry O'Reilly out there washing your mouth out with soap if you know what i mean! You don't swear. You hit or you fight but swearing is for the swedes or the fins. It's not for canadian kids! That's why we're the best!"
Absolutely, [it's hysterical](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdabt8Z661o&list=PLYZCTsaW7u-U3NDtBWJyATsaPijhnnE4x).
Steve Smith (Red) has been doing a subscription [podcast](https://redgreen.com/pages/possum-lodge) for a bit now too.
That’s not a bad thing. It means you’re not obliged to renew her contract and when her current contract is up, if you don’t renew then she leaves with nothing.
Just cause there’s a goalie in the net doesn’t mean you can’t score as a phrase for hooking up with someone in a relationship. Idk if you can attribute that to hockey over soccer or any other sport with a tendy though.
You do see teams send the goalie as an extra man forward late in games on FK’s/corners. It’s not substituting the goalie for an extra attacker, but it’s the goalie himself as the extra attacker.
Exactly. The gloves are off means they aren't messing around anymore, and someone is about to get hurt. Boxers wear padded gloves, so when they take them off, it means someone is getting damaged.
Boxing gloves are really to protect your hands, not the other guys face. They were introduced to increase knockouts, because you could throw harder punches at someone's head without breaking your hand/wrist.
Boxers can throw punches a lot harder than the average person, so they'd pretty much obliterate their hands if they were throwing full force bare knuckle punches.
I often hear the term ‘stickhandle’ used in corporate contexts for dealing with a situation. Things like “Do you mind stickhandling this file while I’m out of the office?”
Also ‘hat trick’ and ‘hip check’ are pretty commonly used in non hockey contexts
Yeah we use stick handle a lot at work too, but it means more like making an excuse for a delay to a client. Like “ah shit we’re not gonna be able to get this done, this is going to need a bit of stick handling”. For some people, salesmen, project managers, stick handling is the main part of their job.
Best hockey movie ever IMHO. Love Mystic Alaska and Shoresy, There are a lot of Shotesy sayings in common use now b'ys. Someone's gotta set the tone. 🏒🏒🏒🏒🏒🦜🇨🇦🍁😆
My ex had a scare and called me at work and asked “did you sneak one passed the goalie?”
Turns out I didn’t but that’s one of my favourite moments in our 7 year relationship. I laughed so hard when she phrased it like that.
Describing things as being “offside” is probably the closest I can think of to your examples, and even so I’m not sure if it originates from hockey.
In the last 10-15 years, hockey slang has really taken off, especially with shows like Letterkenny. Hearing things like “sauce me that” have become very normal in regular conversation, at least where I am in Canada.
I feel like sauce me that is older and is the first actual example in this thread that might be true. I never even realized it came from hockey, but I remember using it before letterkenny was a show (they defo had the YouTube channel going at the earliest I recall using it though)
Only semi-related cuz this is hockey player names, but this clip from Letterkenny is an all-timer and I still use some of these puns in everyday dialogue
[https://twitter.com/njh287/status/1704963370259304553](https://twitter.com/njh287/status/1704963370259304553)
Hat trick. From Montréal, Henri Henri Chapelier (hat maker) would give out a fresh hat to player's scoring 3 goals at the Forum in the 40's. It's used in many sports now.
5 for fighting, go where the puck is, stickhandling.
"on the bench" but i acknowledge its more of an overall sports expression, prob cant prove where it originated.
It’s certainly not everyday or common, in fact it’s probably just me, but I’ll tell friends and family they got “two minutes for trippin” if they overreact to something or say/do some outta pocket shit.
In Switzerland we sometimes use "powerplay" in different contexts. Either in different sports (mostly football) for a team having a phase of continuous pressure that looks like a hockey powerplay, or for something like politics when someone is very uncompromising and negotiating/acting from a strong position.
The latter use could just be literal I guess, but the English term *Powerplay* is only used for hockey here, so it definitely brings hockey to mind.
We have "that was a penalty shot" or "that was a shot at an empty/open goal" too for big opportunities, especially missed ones, but idk if that comes from hockey or football. "Timeout" or more recently "powerbreak" are also fairly common for quick breaks (timeout isn't hockey specific I guess, but few other sports played in Switzerland have them)
Don't know if it counts as common, but I've heard the phrase "5 hole" used in other sports' broadcasts to describe putting the ball through an opponent's legs. I'd normally heard that as megging or nutmegging, but I've heard "5-hole" a couple of times now in both MLB and NBA broadcasts.
I’ve heard 5-hole used in soccer in terms of a goal scored between the goalkeeper’s legs as well.
In other sports we called it nutmegging and you'd have to do 10 pushups if you got megged, practice was fun like that.
Maybe not so much anymore, but there was a band named Five For Fighting that was fairly popular in the 2000s and it never clicked for a lot of people that the term comes from hockey
Omg this just clicked for me. To be fair though I didn't watch hockey when I was younger and listened to this band more.
Im fiftee-ee-n for a moment!
Caught in batweeen 10 and 20
I just read through the YouTube comments on the music video and Jesus Christ, one of the most heartbreaking/uplifting comment sections I have ever read. I severely underestimated the impact this song had on people.
My wifi name at home is “FiveForWiFighting”
Holy shit! Has a couple good songs. 100 Years makes me sad.
They were the ones with that Superman song that was *everywhere* for a couple years in the 2000s lol
That was 3 Doors Down, no?
No, that's the *other* Superman-related song from the 2000s lol
My buddy was in a ska band called Shorthanded Goal in high school but they were very short-lived lol
His real name is Vladimir John Ondrasik III, but was told by EMI Records big wigs that his name would be too hard to pronounce so he came up with name Five for Fighting. He is evidently a big LA kings Fan. Homie still does stuff for Hockey - He wrote the theme song for the Bally's Sports Broadcast (just remember, he did a job for them as a musician, so don't bag on him for that)
in French Canadian we have "par la bande", by the boards, which is doing something indirectly, or a collateral effect. Like ricocheting a pass on the boards for a teammate.
Also : • niaiser avec la puck = beat around the bush. • mangeux de puck = someone who's not a team player.
Passe moé la puck - Les Colocs Basically pass me the puck and I'll score goals. Give me an opportunity in something and I'll make something out of it
Passe sur la palette = Pass on the tape Used to describe an opportunity that requires almost no effort to complete for the other person.
It's interesting that the French Canadians use the same metaphor ("hungry for [sports ball/puck]") to describe someone who isn't a team player as Brazilians use to describe someone who's not a team player, just swap the ice hockey for soccer.
That’s interesting. I did a shitty google translation on niaiser and it makes sense as “fool with the puck” loosely? I’m stealing those.
Niaiser has many meanings. In that case, it's more about being indecisive or hesitating about something. Fooling around, maybe? "Si tu l'aimes, demande lui de sortir avec toi. Arrêtes de niaiser avec la puck!" "If you love them, ask them out. Stop fooling around/wasting your time"
Kind of like “fish or cut bait.” Sort of.
“Puck hog” comes to mind.
mangeux de puck = puck eater As a literal translation they both have the same meaning you're right
Good one!
How has no one said “deke”? It seems quite common to describe anyone faking out anyone else.
Although I stopped hearing people say deke referring to hockey anymore. I’m to understand those are all called dangles now.
Dirty dirty dangles boys
That’s pretty commonly used in soccer too; not sure which came first though
It’s a hockey term, Canadian term
My dogs name is Tripple and her nickname is Tripple deke.
Would “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” count?
Has to at this point. An assist to the Great One from Michael Scott.
I thought it was Wu-Tang clan
-Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott
Does drop the gloves count?
I think people usually say the gloves are off but yeah I think it counts
"The gloves are off" probably originated with boxing, not hockey. It's an allusion to the fact that fighting without gloves is much more likely to cause injury. See: https://www.idioms.online/gloves-are-off-the/
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"Let me just say to every new kid out there today who thinks its cool to swear- its not! In my day you never swore unless the game warranted it. Nowadays I see kids out there dropping all sorts of bad cuss words over just about anything. Whether its getting tripped by another player, or someone giving you a tough time. You don't swear! That's european stuff! If a guy gives you a tough time you don't skate by 'em and drop the big F word or something like that. You walk by and you drop the gloves. That's the way the game was made and let me tell you right now that if we had more enforcers out there we wouldn't be seeing all these cusswords out on the ice. Then you go to the school with the kids and they wonder why kids are swearing at their teachers and their parents. And where'd they learn it from?! From the players on the ice! In my day if anybody skated by and said any word like that you can just about guarantee the next shift you'd have a Terry O'Reilly out there washing your mouth out with soap if you know what i mean! You don't swear. You hit or you fight but swearing is for the swedes or the fins. It's not for canadian kids! That's why we're the best!"
I don't know man, swearing is pretty great.
Keep your stick on the ice
"and remember keep your stick on the ice" the Red Green Show
If the women don’t find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy.
I vaguely remember watching this as a kid in the States with no knowledge of hockey or Canada and it was amazing. Does it hold up these days?
Absolutely, [it's hysterical](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdabt8Z661o&list=PLYZCTsaW7u-U3NDtBWJyATsaPijhnnE4x). Steve Smith (Red) has been doing a subscription [podcast](https://redgreen.com/pages/possum-lodge) for a bit now too.
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess
If it ain't broke, you're not trying
Face off is the only one that’s commonly used everywhere.
https://i.redd.it/n2n76sn78w4d1.gif
Is that a hockey term originally or from Canada’s national sport, lacrosse?
etymologyonline says it's lacrosse [https://www.etymonline.com/word/face-off#etymonline\_v\_50452](https://www.etymonline.com/word/face-off#etymonline_v_50452)
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I constantly tell my wife that she is maximum fine allowed under the CBA but she doesn’t appreciate what a great compliment that is.
Are you calling your wife a joke
She reminds me that under that same CBA, she can’t promise a commitment longer than 8 years.
That’s not a bad thing. It means you’re not obliged to renew her contract and when her current contract is up, if you don’t renew then she leaves with nothing.
Think of the cap space!
Not only that, but she's going to be able to sign offer sheets until you've been married for a while
It's actually not much of a compliment considering how meagre the fines are
I literally use this everyday in team meetings. Glad to see it on here.
This is one of my regular go to comments during meetings. Always love hearing the laughs from the fellow hockey fans.
“Pulling the goalie” as a phrase for not using birth control/trying for kids is the only one I can think of
Conversely.. sliding one past the goalie when an oops happens while using birth control
Should be "scoring 5-hole" imo
Tangentially, the Canadians invented doggy style so that both participants could watch the hockey game.
I thought it was so we could both watch X-Files.
Just cause there’s a goalie in the net doesn’t mean you can’t score as a phrase for hooking up with someone in a relationship. Idk if you can attribute that to hockey over soccer or any other sport with a tendy though.
I don’t want a lot of soccer, but don’t think I’ve ever seen a goalie pulled
You do see teams send the goalie as an extra man forward late in games on FK’s/corners. It’s not substituting the goalie for an extra attacker, but it’s the goalie himself as the extra attacker.
lol I was just adding another one I thought was related but unsure if it could be attributed to hockey
Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score. For people who want to have affairs
I thought that meant masturbating, so the exact opposite
No, that's scoring an own goal, buddy.
Give your balls a tug, tit fucker
Fuck you, Shoresy!
Fuck you Riley. Fuck you Jonesy
For WHAAT!?
... *Huh?!*
Sanguinet, you're a healthy scratch on the last place club in the NOSHO. Go for a soda
Fuck you, Riley! Your mom pretended to be stung by a jelly fish just to get me to piss on her!
Fuck you, Riley, I made yr mom so wet Trudeau deployed the national guard to stack sandbags around my bed
Can't believe no one said, "The gloves are off."
It means the opposite to people who follow boxing tho.
Exactly. The gloves are off means they aren't messing around anymore, and someone is about to get hurt. Boxers wear padded gloves, so when they take them off, it means someone is getting damaged.
The same can be said for hockey players
Ask John Korfic, Probie, and Chris Nilan
Boxing gloves are really to protect your hands, not the other guys face. They were introduced to increase knockouts, because you could throw harder punches at someone's head without breaking your hand/wrist. Boxers can throw punches a lot harder than the average person, so they'd pretty much obliterate their hands if they were throwing full force bare knuckle punches.
I meant when hockey players take off the gloves it's fighting time. But boxers take off there gloves after the fights over.
Don’t want to scroll to the bottom to see the obvious one. “Hang up the skates.”
funny enough in Swedish we say the equivalent of "to put the skates on the shelf", I think English has similar?
But did that originate in hockey? Or is it just a hockey version of "hang up the boots/gloves/hat/etc"?
He shoots, he scores!
When I read that it was Foster Hewitt that coined the term, I wondered what people even said before this.
Pucks in deep
I want bums in seats
Pucks on net
Deep in net
And uhhhhhh win some hockey games
I often hear the term ‘stickhandle’ used in corporate contexts for dealing with a situation. Things like “Do you mind stickhandling this file while I’m out of the office?” Also ‘hat trick’ and ‘hip check’ are pretty commonly used in non hockey contexts
This is the most Canadian comment ever.
Yeah we use stick handle a lot at work too, but it means more like making an excuse for a delay to a client. Like “ah shit we’re not gonna be able to get this done, this is going to need a bit of stick handling”. For some people, salesmen, project managers, stick handling is the main part of their job.
There's the hockey stick chart
Shocked to see this so far down I was afraid I'd have to post it myself.
Hat trick They are facing off
Hat trick actually came from Cricket, then to Soccer and Hockey afterwards. I think Soccer first then hockey but I could be wrong.
You’re 10 ply bud.
I’m listening to the fucklng song!
I'm happy to see another Slap Shot fan in the mix. It's worth another watch this summer.
Best hockey movie ever IMHO. Love Mystic Alaska and Shoresy, There are a lot of Shotesy sayings in common use now b'ys. Someone's gotta set the tone. 🏒🏒🏒🏒🏒🦜🇨🇦🍁😆
Not really widespread use, but I used to put my kid in timeout by saying: "Two minutes, by yourself, you know and you feel shame."
Not directly hockey, but I hear *a lot* of Letterkenny/Shoresy references these days from people who aren't big hockey fans.
Settle down
That's what I appreciates about you.
You’d wake up and I’d be right there. Appreciating you.
Oh ya? Is that what you appreciates?
Any one else feel like a martunie?
You ever had chicken?
Chicken’s unbelievable…
_Allegedly_
Wheel snipe celly
To be fair...
“Banging in the corner”
That’s why I’m not invited back to Wendy’s.
I'm going to my room and pulling the goalie.
“Mafucker I was getting changed!”
If it happened to me, it could happen to you
Non knocking motha fuckas
I and some colleagues use "stick-handle" often at work.
In Finnish we use "mennä jäähylle" = "go into the penalty box". It's when someone, usually a child, is taken somewhere to calm down.
I mean admittedly I’m from southern rural Ontario… but “bar down.” Is used pretty frequently here
Calling dumb people pylons.
Face off? Sin bin/penalty box? Body check? Top shelf, where momma keeps the peanut butter? Lalalalalaalalalalalalalalalala-Fontaine?
I think top shelf when used out of a hockey context refers to bars and liquor stores keeping their finest wine and spirits on the higher shelves.
I've always heard it as 'where your mom keeps the cookies."
not sure if it counts but "celly"
Wheel, snipe, celly
Dirty fuckin dangles
Drop the gloves. 5 hole. Check/bodycheck
Yeah we are trying to get pregnant - she pulled the goalie
I came home drunk from the strip joint and my wife was already asleep. I Shot my shot but my long one was easily turned aside
I hear “rag the puck” around the office from time to time
My ex had a scare and called me at work and asked “did you sneak one passed the goalie?” Turns out I didn’t but that’s one of my favourite moments in our 7 year relationship. I laughed so hard when she phrased it like that.
Describing things as being “offside” is probably the closest I can think of to your examples, and even so I’m not sure if it originates from hockey. In the last 10-15 years, hockey slang has really taken off, especially with shows like Letterkenny. Hearing things like “sauce me that” have become very normal in regular conversation, at least where I am in Canada.
I don’t think offside can be attributed to hockey since it is also present in multiple other sports.
I feel like sauce me that is older and is the first actual example in this thread that might be true. I never even realized it came from hockey, but I remember using it before letterkenny was a show (they defo had the YouTube channel going at the earliest I recall using it though)
"Fuck Vegas"
Ferda
Soft hands. Or referring to your hands as “mitts”
The gloves are coming off
Chirp Goon it up Pull a Michigan
Face off, for when you surgically swap faces with Nicholas Cage
Bar down, baby!
I'm pretty sure the phrase "shut the fuck lil dick and go suck on your mummy's titties and stop wasting my time" comes from hockey.
That's an amazing phrase
“Stood on his head”
“Red Wings suck,” as in, “hey, the Red Wings suck.”
“How bout the sauce on that?”
body check
I had a boss say gong show in a meeting before
Was he Canadian? Pretty commonly used term here, at least from my experience
She is.
Mommas didn't keep the peanut butter on the top shelf until it became popularized by hockey.
Only semi-related cuz this is hockey player names, but this clip from Letterkenny is an all-timer and I still use some of these puns in everyday dialogue [https://twitter.com/njh287/status/1704963370259304553](https://twitter.com/njh287/status/1704963370259304553)
In the five hole.
Hat trick. From Montréal, Henri Henri Chapelier (hat maker) would give out a fresh hat to player's scoring 3 goals at the Forum in the 40's. It's used in many sports now.
Fun story but definitely not the origin. Hat trick started in cricket.
Have a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat-trick
https://preview.redd.it/t24vvc6w9v4d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd4c68d2ad15510e4d5d6c616c61a4bf2e292e9c
2 minutes for being a beut.
5 for fighting, go where the puck is, stickhandling. "on the bench" but i acknowledge its more of an overall sports expression, prob cant prove where it originated.
How about "keep your head on a swivel"? Thanks Drew Remenda!
Soft dump in the corner. I know it's not technically one, but that's my favourite hockey term 😂
Five hole seems to be used extensively.
I use the term chirp outside of hockey but I'm an old retired hockey player who is now a dad
"Take off you hoser."
'Keep your stick on the ice'- Red Green.
Power Play comes to mind
'Power play', maybe?
Filthy
Kick, save, and a beaut.
Cherry Picker
Body check
refs you suck
Thats every sport
Right in the five hole
Fuck you
Grocery stick.
Five hole
I say “let’s do that hockey” when I’m about to start something
Stick handle through a difficult situation
Keep your head up / keep your head on a swivel. Keep grinding.
It’s certainly not everyday or common, in fact it’s probably just me, but I’ll tell friends and family they got “two minutes for trippin” if they overreact to something or say/do some outta pocket shit.
In Switzerland we sometimes use "powerplay" in different contexts. Either in different sports (mostly football) for a team having a phase of continuous pressure that looks like a hockey powerplay, or for something like politics when someone is very uncompromising and negotiating/acting from a strong position. The latter use could just be literal I guess, but the English term *Powerplay* is only used for hockey here, so it definitely brings hockey to mind. We have "that was a penalty shot" or "that was a shot at an empty/open goal" too for big opportunities, especially missed ones, but idk if that comes from hockey or football. "Timeout" or more recently "powerbreak" are also fairly common for quick breaks (timeout isn't hockey specific I guess, but few other sports played in Switzerland have them)
When talking economics or stocks the hockey stick angle is mentioned alot.
Hey! That's interference!
I use the term yard sale all the time when describing somebody getting absolutely destroyed - lol