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spear Hockey

• v. check an opposing player by thrusting the blade of the stick into some part of his body, especially his stomach.

  See also: spearing  

  • 1963  Defense star Doug Harvey confessed: "I spear any forward who runs interference and sticks too close."
  • 1964  At one point, Brewer the Leafs' bad man, speared Stan Mikita, which is to say he rammed the business end of his hockey stick into Mikita's stomach.
  • 1966  It was said he speared Phil Goyette so severely that [he] will need a month to convalesce.