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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2014, 03:52 PM Nov 2014

Which hockey word should be banned in 2015?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/which-hockey-word-should-be-banned-in-2015-161259565.html

TIME Magazine runs an annual poll asking which words should be “banned” in the following year. It’s a poll we honestly weren’t aware of until they made the incredibly daft move of asking if “feminist” should be banned, which went over about as well as flatulence in a crowded elevator.

Here at Puck Daddy, we felt it was time to put some hockey words and phrases to the test, and delete some terms from our puck vocabulary in 2015.

The following selections are from the Puck Daddy staff and friends -- Greg Wyshynski, Sean Leahy, Josh Cooper, Ryan Lambert, Jen Neale, Jen Lute Costella, Dobber and Jon Press among them. Some of these terms are new, some are old; some are annoying terms used by non-players to sound like players; and at least two are sourced to national broadcasters that frequently make fans’ foreheads meet their palms.

Which hockey words or terms should be banned in 2015? Vote away!
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