Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 90524 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 453(@200wpm)___ 362(@250wpm)___ 302(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90524 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 453(@200wpm)___ 362(@250wpm)___ 302(@300wpm)
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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 in the 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
Sweater – Jersey
Tarp – Top/Shirt/Sweater/Jersey
Tendy – Goalie/Goaltender
The Great One – Wayne Gretzky
Top Cheddar/Top Cheese/Top Shelf/Top Cookies/Where Grandma Hides the Cookies – The top section of the net/top shelf/area of the goal between the crossbar and tendy’s shoulders often used in reference of something being “top notch”
Wheel (on the ice) – Skate/Fast skate/Best skating
Wheel (off the ice) – Picking up/having sex with women
Warmies – Warm ups
Zam or Zamboni – Ice Surface Cleaner
Zebra or Zeb – Another name for a referee
Playlist Selects
Here are five songs from the The Veteran (Dalvegan Dragons #2) playlist!
Feel free to follow the playlist on Spotify to find more songs I felt related to the book.
1. I’ll Be Around – The Spinners (R&B)
2. Naked – X Ambassadors (Rock)
3. Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely – Backstreet Boys (Pop)
4. Dime Mi Amory (Texican Rock n’ Roll)
5. Neon You – Don Louis (Country)
More songs: https://bit.ly/TheVeteranPlaylist
Chapter 1
Igor
It turns out the only thing worse than being chewed out in Russian by my old man is being bitched at in English by the woman who literally holds my career in the palm of her claw like hands.
Most people think it’s the bench boss that a player should be afraid of.
Those people?
They’ve clearly never met Harlow “Hot Rocket” Hennington, Owner and GM of the Dalvegan Dragons ice hockey franchise.
And yeah, Hot Rocket would be redundant – since that’s what a rocket is – if it weren’t for the fact hot was in reference to her temper rather than her body.