1. The other team's goalie
   The refs
2. The defensemen
   Your own goalie

The refs are known as the zebra because of the black and white stripes on their uniforms. "I face washed a guy who was chirping me after the whistle, but I got thrown into the sin-bin because I did it in front of the zebra."

1. Rocket Richard
   Wayne Gretzky
2. Bobby Orr
   Sidney Crosby

Wayne Gretzky put up so many points during his career that he has more assists than any other player has points. Over 20 NHL seasons, he scored 894 goals with an amazing 2,857 points.

1. Forechecking and working the boards
   Setting up their teammates
2. Scoring goals
   Taking face-offs

The mucker on the team is by no means the most skilled player. They usually make up for their lack of finesse by working hard and grinding. You'll find muckers along the boards or back-checking when the play shifts to their own end.

1. Going five-hole
   Starting a gong-show
2. Pinching the pipes
   Finding the slot

Going five-hole refers to finding that sweet spot between the goalie's stick and legs. If between the legs is five-hole, where are the other four holes? The upper left and right and the lower left and right parts of the net make up the remainder.

1. To put the biscuit in the basket
   To dump and chase
2. To light the lamp
   To go top shelf

To dump and chase means to shoot the puck into the other team's end and try to beat them to the puck. It's a popular strategy for taking control of the game and trying to tire out the other team.

1. Stand up
   Butterfly
2. Hybrid style
   Blocking style

The butterfly goaltending style is the most common in today's game. It involves covering the bottom half of the net with the pads in a V-shape, which resembles a butterfly's wings.

1. Burning the barn
   Cherry-picking
2. Riding the pine
   Back checking

The origin of this expression is pretty straight-forward. Once you get to the NHL, there aren't too many players that are just riding the pine, but at lower levels, some players may barely see the ice.

1. Saucer passing
   Hip checking somebody
2. Deking
   Scoring

"Slapping some alfredo" may not make sense to you if it's the first time you're hearing this expression. However, the train of thought goes like this: Alfredo sauce, sauce, saucer, saucer pass.

1. An ice breaker
   A fishbowl
2. A face wash
   A zebra

You might see a player get face washed when he's shooting his mouth after the play. There's nothing worse than getting a face full of smelly glove when the ref is looking the other way.

1. Letting in almost every shot
   Playing so well that it's impossible to score on him
2. Getting into a fight
   Playing the puck out of the crease

If you want an example of a goalie who used to stand on his head, Dominik Hasek is a perfect example. He would lose his stick, be face down on the ground, and somehow still get a blocker up to stop the puck. In 1998, he led the Czech Republic to an Olympic gold medal with a 1-0 victory over Russia.

1. The game is over.
   A fight
2. Your team loses.
   A period ends.

When it's tilly time, it's time to drop the gloves. You know, time to throw down or throw your mitts on the floor. When it's tilly time, it's time to stop chirping and get your hands up.

1. Mario Lemieux
   Sidney Crosby
2. Bobby Orr
   Gordie Howe

Gordie Howe played 26 years in the NHL and played his last season when he was 51. What's even more impressive is that he also played in the WHA hockey league from 1973-1979, which means his professional hockey career spanned 32 years.

1. The sin-bin
   The wheelhouse
2. Coast to coast
   The fishbowl

The sin-bin is a humorous name for the penalty box. However, there's no shame in spending some time in the box. Even Sidney Crosby spent 36 minutes in the sin-bin last season. The NHL record for a season is Dave Schultz with 472 minutes.

1. An awesome deke
   A great save
2. A sick goal
   A big fight

Dangling is another word for deking, which refers to fooling the other team's goalie or defensemen with a series of fake movements. If you have trouble picturing it, just look at Ovechkin's highlight reel.

1. Burger
   Beaver tap
2. Chuck thunder
   Clap bombs

To beaver tap: to tap your stick on the ice to make a sound like a beaver slapping his tail against the water. It's a great way to let your teammate know you're open, but you should never beaver tap unless you're really in the clear.

1. Get into a two-minute penalty, get a five-minute penalty, score a goal
   Score a goal, block a shot, get into a fight
2. Score a goal, get an assist, get into a fight
   Score three goals

The Gordie Howe hat trick is named from Gordie Howe's ability to do everything: score, set up a teammate or hold his own in a fight when necessary. Gordie Howe scored two of these hat tricks in his career.

1. The basket
   The rubber patty
2. The biscuit
   The disc

All of these terms may be slang for the puck except for basket. The basket is the thing that you shoot the biscuit into. "I had a breakaway and went top shelf to put the biscuit in the basket."

1. A gongshow
   A twig
2. A snip
   A howitzer

There are few things in hockey that are more fun to watch than an Al MacInnis slap shot from the blue line. Zdeno Chara holds the NHL Skills Competition record for hardest shot at 108.8mph.

1. Scoring a game-winner
   Completing a perfect pass
2. Taping your stick like a candy cane all the way down
   Skating from one end of the rin to the other

Going tape to tape means making a pass perfectly from the tape of your stick to the tape of your teammate's stick. Of course, you could also go tape to tape with a player on the other team, but you'll probably get benched if that happens.

1. A player with a playoff beard
   A player on the winning team
2. A goalie
   A player on the losing team

In the early days of hockey, the losing team would hose down the ice at the end of the game to smooth out the ice for the next game. The expression has stuck, and it still refers to a loser or player on the losing team.

1. The player who hasn't scored
   The coach
2. The star
   The player that barely skates

When a star player is put on the same line as two weak players, he's known as the babysitter. They are responsible for making things happen. Their list of responsibilities includes back-checking, scoring, and being their own playmaker.

1. In the playoffs
   In net
2. In the NHL
   On the first line

It's every hockey players dream to play in the show. The odds of a young player playing minor league hockey ever making it to the NHL is about 1 in 4,000. It's not as difficult as winning the lottery, but it's difficult enough that you shouldn't bank on it as a career choice.

1. A sieve
   A fiver
2. A muffin
   A gino

A sieve is a mesh cooking utensil used to strain out water through a series of tiny holes. A sieve goaltender is so bad that it seems like he's full of holes. "We scored seven goals on the other team's sieve."

1. Going between the goalie's legs
   Scoring on the side closest to the shooter
2. Scoring stick side
   Scoring on the side opposite to the shooter

Scoring short side refers to scoring on the side of the net that requires the shortest shot, which is the side closest to where you're shooting from. However, this term is often mistakingly used to mean scoring on the side of the goalie's blocker.

1. Banking the puck off the crossbar
   Hitting the post and in
2. Going five-hole
   Going backhand

Half the fun of hockey slang is trying to figure out how the expression came to be. It's not too had to follow the train of thought on this one. Imagine a slapshot from the blue line that hits the bottom part of the crossbar before going in.

1. Brain bucket
   Waffle
2. Basket
   Howitzer

Brain buckets became mandatory in the NHL in the 1979-1980 season. The rule only applied to new players who entered the league, so the last player to go helmetless was in the 1996-1997 season.

1. Rag the puck
   Waffle-board
2. Tripod
   Fan the puck

If you rag the puck, you're just trying to wind down the clock with a lead. It's basically a form of keep-away. Although it's usually effective, occasionally teams get too protective and end up losing the game because they stop trying to sore.

1. The opposing team's goalie
   The referee
2. A defenseman that gets dangled
   The faceoff circle

Imagine one of those dangles so dirty that the defenseman looks like they need to go back to peewee. The defenseman essentially becomes a pylon that sits on the ice and doesn't move, which is how this expression got its name.

1. A waffle
   A saucer
2. A barn
   An apple

If you spend enough time around hockey players, you'll eventually hear them called an assist an apple. "He finished the game with two goals and a pair of apples." The origin of this expression isn't as obvious as some of them on this list. Likely, the two words just sound similar.

1. He just went top cheddar.
   It's time to clap bombs.
2. Here comes a top door missy.
   There's a big shipment of icing coming.

You might say this hilarious expression to your teammate when the other team shoots the puck down the ice. Of course, icing is when one side shoots the puck down the ice from behind the centerline.

1. A player who can barely skate
   A player who just scored a hat trick
2. A player who set-up a game-winning goal
   A goalie

A bender refers to a player who is such a lousy skater that it looks like their skates aren't tied tight enough because their ankles bend inwards. Each team usually has at least one bender, but what they lack in speed, they have to make up for with either their ability to fight or shoot.

1. Grinder
   Pigeon
2. Plug
   Lip lettuce

The best way for somebody to score when they don't have much of a shot or much playmaking ability is to try to bang one in from in front of the net. Like pigeons in the park eat mostly bread crumbs and scraps, pigeons on the ice rely on others to do most of the hard work.

1. A grocery stick
   A goon
2. A beauty
   A flamingo

When you go to the grocery store, there's usually a grocery stick between your items and the person in front of you's items. A hockey grocery stick is a person who spends most of the game on the bench.

1. Stay-at-home defenseman
   Butterfly
2. Plumber
   Waffle

A plumber isn't the most highly skilled player on the ice, but he works hard and does the work that most guys don't want to do. You can find a plumber on the third or fourth line, and they usually get limited playing time.

1. The goalie does the splits.
   The goalie makes a high glove save and the momentum sends his legs in the air.
2. The goalie stacks his pads in the air.
   The goalie makes a high blocker save and loses his stick.

If you need help picturing what a windmill save would look like, just look up a clip of Dominik Hasek in his prime. This type of save gets its name from the goalie spinning his pads in the air like the blades of a windmill.