Total pages in book: 88
Estimated words: 88895 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 444(@200wpm)___ 356(@250wpm)___ 296(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 88895 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 444(@200wpm)___ 356(@250wpm)___ 296(@300wpm)
He wants her...even more than she hates him.
Loose lips sink ships...
Which isn't a problem unless it causes her twin sister - who you might be in love with - to hate you.
And, of course, if it could get you traded from your dream team due to becoming a PR problem you swore you wouldn't be.
I guess you could say this season won't be easy.
Especially for me, the stud.
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HOCKEY GLOSSARY
Hockey has its own language! And when/if you are not familiar with it, it can be somewhat confusing. While the novel itself defines many of these for you in context, I am also adding this page as a reference point to assist you in the experience.
Apple – An assist
(The) Assist – Assisting in scoring a goal
Barn – Hockey Arena/Hockey Rink
Bardownsky – Type of shot that hit the top bar and goes down into the net, highly impressive
Beauty – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)
Bench Boss – Coach
Bender – A bad/low skilled player (whose ankles bend poorly while skating) (Insult)
Biscuit – Hockey Puck
Blades – Hockey Skates
Boat Race – High scoring, fast-paced game
Bottle Rocket – When the goaltenders water bottle is bounced into the air by a shot hitting the net
Brewskie – Beer
Broad/Broadskie – Female
Bucket – Helmet
Cage – Type of helmet that has face protecting front
Cap or “C” – Captain
Celly – Celebrate
Chirp/Chirping – Trash talking
Clapper – Slapshot
(The) Cup – The Stanley Cup, the championship trophy/prize in the league
Deke – Quick move to get around a defensive player or beat a goalie with misdirection
Donnybrook – Fight
Drop the Gloves – Fight
Dub or “W” – Win
Duster – Player who spends most of his time on the bench, collecting dust, never playing (Insult)
Ferda (For The Boys) – Doing what’s best/doing something for the boys/the team
Free Agent (off the ice) – Single/Romantically unattached
Garbage Goal – Lucky shot (Insult)
Gino – Goal
GM – General Manager
Hat Trick or Hatty – Three points scored in a single game by a single player
Lettuce – Hair
Lighting the Lamp – Scoring a goal
LTIR “Long Term Injured Reserve – Players who are injured/expected to miss a lot/most of a season are placed on this as part of salary cap reasonings
Mitts (on ice) – Gloves or hands (depending on context)
Mitt (off ice) – Pussy/Twat/Snatch
Pest – Pain in the ass player (Insult)
PK – Penalty Kill, when the home team is short one player putting them on the disadvantage
Pigeon – Player who consistently makes garbage goals/garbage plays (Insult)
Pipe-Fitter – Averaged skill player who tends to work a little harder during his shifts
Player’s Only Meeting – Meeting/Session held by the captain and/or alternative captains without management/coaching around to handle issues, more like a peer mediation session
Plug (on & off the ice) – A useless player/person (Insult)
Puck Bunny – Female/Chick that specifically tries to sleep or date hockey players (think groupie)
Pylon – A cone used for drills
Pylon – A useless player that’s easy to get around (Insult)
Razor – Player in his prime/at his best
Rocket (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)
Sando – Sandwich
Scratch – Player on the roster that’s not going to dress for the game
Shift/Shifts – The stretch of time a player is on the ice
(The) Show – NHL
Ship – Short for Championship
Shutout – The home team wins the game by preventing the away team from scoring at all
Sieve – Goalie who lets in a lot of goals (Insult)
Sin Bin – Penalty Box
Silky Mitts – Great/amazing stickhandling skills (Compliment)
Snipe – A tight shot that scores on the goalie in the tiniest spaces possible
Sniper – A player who makes the aforementioned shot effortlessly (Compliment)
Snipe/Sniper (off the ice) – An attractive/hot female (Compliment)
Snow Showering – Spraying the goalie with ice shavings intentionally
Stud – Great Player/Skilled Player/Incredible skills (Compliment)
Suicide Pass – A pass made that sets up the player receiving it to get smashed by a waiting defenseman