wrist shot

noun

: a quick usually short-range shot in ice hockey made while the puck is against the blade of the stick by snapping the blade quickly forward

Examples of wrist shot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Laughton, making his Kings debut, got that back two minutes later, lining a low wrist shot from a tough angle off the pads of Canadiens goalie Jakub Dobes. —Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026

Calum Ritchie carried the puck into the Sharks’ zone, curled, and found a trailing Tony DeAngelo, who skated to his right and put a wrist shot on net that Askarov couldn’t handle with his glove as the Islanders took a 1-0 lead. —Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2026

Four minutes after Martin’s goal, Michael Macauda restored the two-goal lead for Tewksbury with a bullet of a wrist shot from inside the left circle. —Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026

MacKinnon slipped him the puck in the right circle, and Necas wired a wrist shot into the top-right corner for his 28th goal of the year. —Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1899, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for wrist shot

• allot
• barat
• begot
• besought
• bethought
• bloodshot
• boycott
• buckshot
• crackpot
• croat
• culottes
• dashpot