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Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2024
With the Sharks down by two, Mikael Granlund controlled the puck behind the Seattle net and sent it back to the point for Calen Addison.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
The set comes with two plastic pucks, two plastic strikers, and two manual scorers for friendly competition between friends or siblings.
—Deanna McCormack, Parents, 19 Mar. 2024
Just a puck of coffee held together by a food-safe coating of seaweed.
—Jaina Grey, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
Byfield got the puck off the draw between Dubois and Boone Jenner in Columbus’ offensive zone.
—Joe Reedy, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
On Eklund’s goal, Jacob MacDonald picked up a loose puck that Erik Cernak had lost control of, entered the Lightning zone, and put a pass toward the middle of the ice that Eklund snapped past Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
Just 4:30 later, after Kostin’s shot on net was blocked, Vlasic picked up the loose puck, skated below the goal line, and put a shot toward the front of the Pittsburgh net.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
With River Falls junior goalie Luke Linehan registering 34 saves through two periods, and overtime looking more like a possibility, Armani Fisher kept the puck to himself on a 3-on-2 break and punched it past Linehan from the high slot to put the Ledgers up 2-1 just past the 10-minute mark.
—Jim Hoehn, Twin Cities, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puck. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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puck
1 of 2 nounpuck
2 of 2 nounNoun
Old English pūca "evil spirit"
Noun
from a dialect word puck "to hit, poke," probably from Irish poc "butt, stroke in hurling," literally, "buck (male deer)"
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