DCHP-2

backhander back-hander DCHP-2 (March 2016)

• n. — Hockey

  a shot made by hitting the puck with the back side of the hockey stick.

  Type: 4. Culturally Significant — A backhander, also known as a "backhanded shot", is a type of shot that is made using the back side of the blade of a hockey stick. See the video from an NHL game for an example.

  See also: slapshot (meaning 1)  one-timer  wrist shot  

  • 1909  It looked all Quebec, but Shamrock took charge, and although Paddy Mommran and Joe Power sat down in goal, the Irishmen were given a point, Jordan sending the puck in on a back-hander through over-keenness.
  • 1925  Cooke opened the scoring in this period unassisted, shooting from close in. Shewchuk shot in a fast nifty backhander, making the score four to four. 
  • 1933  He stick-handled through the entire Stettler team, and was he stick-handling - just ask the fans. Finding that he could not shoot from his usual wing he banged in a backhander which completely fooled the Stettler goaler. 
  • 1949  Mortson, without peer as a rushing rearguard, carried the puck through the Hab team in a crowd-rousing end-to-end dash, only to have Durnan save on Gus' short backhander. Generally, however, the Leafs and the Habs had few clear, hard shots on the nets. 
  • 1962  Gauthier had Leiter well covered but he let loose a soft backhander on the ice and the goaler, well out of his cage, was beaten as it ticked off his skate. 
  • 1974  It is not a hard shot like the slap shot, nor does it demand all the follow through of a backhander or a wrist shot.
  • 2005  Warrior Ryan Macgregor emerged from the penalty box to find a belated Christmas present: a loose puck and half a sheet of ice to himself. He made the most of his gift, shelving a backhander past Boyce on a superb deke. 
  • 2011  The best part of it may have been Henrik's sweet move on Antti Niemi, outwaiting the Sharks goalie down low and tucking in a backhander for a third-period power play goal that stood up as the winner. 
  • 2016  Larkin scored on a nifty backhander to polish off the breakaway at 9:20 of the first period.