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Garbage Goal: A goal that takes little talent to score. Most such goals are scored from right in front of the net, often when the goaltender is out of position.

Gate: The penalty box (sometimes called the sin bin or bin) is the area where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty, for an offense not severe enough to merit outright expulsion from . . . View Full Definition

Get The Jump: To move fast and thereby get a good start on the opponents.

Give-And-Go: A play on which a player passes to a teammate, then skates past him, ready for a quick return pass.

Glass: The plexiglas sheet on top of the boards, which protects spectators and players on the bench from the puck.

Glove Hand: The hand that the goalie catches the puck with, in contrast to his stick hand, which is the hand that the goalie holds his stick in.

Glove Save: A save made with the catching glove.

Glove Side: The side on which the goaltender wears the catching glove; the opposite of stick side.

Goal: Provides one point; scored when a puck goes between the goalposts from the stick of an attacking player and entirely crosses the red line between the goalposts; also the informal term used t . . . View Full Definition

Goal Cage: A 6 foot wide by 4 foot high tubular steel frame consisting of a cross bar and two goalposts to which a net is attached.

Goal Crease: An area in front of the goal cage. In the national hockey league, the crease is a rectangle 8 feet wide and 4 ½ feet long, surmounted by the arc of a circle that extends a further 1 ½ feet a . . . View Full Definition

Goal Judge: One of two officials who are responsible for determining whether the puck has passed between the goal posts and completely across the goal line, the two requirements for a legal goal. The ju . . . View Full Definition

Goal Light: A light behind the goal cage, next to the green light, that is turned on by the goal judge to indicate that a goal has been scored.

Goal Line: This is a red line that is painted across the ice and it marks the front edge of the goal and the puck must pass over the line completely in order for it to count as a goal. The line is 13 f . . . View Full Definition

Goal Mouth: The opening at the front of the goal cage formed by the goal posts and the crossbar, plus the ice area immediately in front of that opening.

Goal Post: One of the two vertical metal bars that, with the crossbar, frame the goal cage.

Goalie: The goaltender.

Goalkeeper: The heavily padded player who guards the goal; prevents opponents from scoring by stopping the puck any way he can.

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