Definition of wrist shot
: 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
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Former Flyer Zac Rinaldo tied the game at 3-3 with 18 minutes, 1 second left in regulation, putting a right-circle wrist shot over Elliott’s glove.
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Hagg, of all people, weaved through the Ottawa defense and scored one of the Flyers’ most artistic goals of the season, sending a right-circle wrist shot past Anderson to put the Flyers ahead, 2-0, with 12:46 left in the first.
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Hedman then sent a wrist shot past Washington goalie Braden Holtby from the edge of the left circle for a 3-0 lead less than two minutes later.
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Luke Glendening of the Red Wings was caught without a stick, and Labanc's wrist shot through traffic beat Mrazek high to the glove side .
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Tucson drew first blood at 11:04 of the first period when defenseman Dakota Mermis snapped a wrist shot over Barracuda goaltender Antoine Bibeau.
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But 1:24 after Kane registered his second goal, Burns' wrist shot through traffic found the back of the net.
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Theodore put a wrist shot past Jonathan Quick 2:23 into the game.
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Jordan Greenway scored his first NHL goal just 20 seconds after Eric Staal sent a wrist shot past a struggling Connor Hellebuyck, who was pulled for Steve Mason at the second intermission.
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First Known Use of wrist shot
circa 1899
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