Recent Examples on the WebAs college hockey’s youngest player last season, the 6-foot, 190-pound Celebrini won the Hobey Baker as the nation’s top player, as well as Hockey East player and rookie of the year honors.—John Wawrow, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2024 According to the advanced hockey statistics website Natural Stat Trick, the Panthers have given up just four goals this playoffs in the 207-plus minutes that Luostarinen has played at five-on-five.—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024 Habibur Rahman/Abaca Press/Reuters In 1998, a scientist named Michael Mann published a graph in Nature magazine shaped like a hockey stick – illustrating the exponential heating of the Earth over the last century compared with the previous millennium.—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024 The suicide of their neighbor Mark Pavelich, a star on the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that defeated the Soviet Union.—Longreads, 4 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for hockey
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Word History
Etymology
perhaps from Middle French hoquet shepherd's crook, diminutive of hoc hook, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hōc hook
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