wrist shot

noun

, Ice Hockey.

1. a quick shot made with a snap of the wrist, using little or no backswing, with the puck against the stick blade.

Example Sentences

She whiffed on a wrist shot, drawing Frankel out of position, then slid around to the right side and centered the puck behind her, where Schepers tipped it in.

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Healey got the puck at the left point and she sent a high wrist shot through traffic over Rooney’s glove into the far, top corner.

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Colorado scored the opening goal of the game for the first time in the series when Mikko Rantanen sent a wrist shot over Oettinger early in the second period on a power play.

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Carlo, who scored in Game 1 just a few hours after his wife gave birth to their son, made it 2-0 with five minutes left in the first on a seemingly harmless wrist shot from the blue line.

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With 23 seconds left in the first half of the penalty, Tarasenko beat Swayman with a wrist shot from the left circle.

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