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Pad Save: A save on which the goalie uses a leg pad to stop or deflect the puck.

Paddle: The wide portion above the blade of a goalie's stick.

Pass Out: When an attacking player, who is behind his opponentís goal, has the puck and he passes it to a teammate who is in front of the opponentís goal.

Passing: When one player uses his stick to send the puck to a teammate.

Passout: A pass by an attacking player from behind his opponent’s net or goal line to a teammate in front of the net.

Patrick Division: With the adams division made up the wales conference until the 1992-93 season; renamed the atlantic division of the eastern conference starting with the 1993-94 season.

Penalties: There are four kinds of penalties. Minor penalties, major penalties, misconduct penalty and match penalties. For a minor penalty a player must sit in the penalty box for 2 minutes or until t . . . View Full Definition

Penalty Box: 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

Penalty Box Assistant: This is an off-ice official who is in charge of allowing players back on the ice after they have finished serving their penalty.

Penalty Killer: A player expert at backchecking and keeping or gaining control of a loose puck under difficult circumstances who is trained to break up a power play when his team is shorthanded.

Penalty Minutes: A statistic that shows the amount of penalty time accumulated by a player or team.

Penalty Shootout: A method of deciding a winner, in amateur hockey, if the score is still tied after one overtime period. Each team designates five shooters and a goalie, and the teams alternate penalty shots . . . View Full Definition

Penalty Shot: A shot on goal, with only the goaltender defending, awarded for certain infractions. The player taking the shot is given the puck at the center ice spot and must keep the puck moving forward . . . View Full Definition

Penalty Timekeeper: An official who sits between the two penalty boxes and is responsible for recording and timing every penalty.

Period: One of the three 20-minute playing segments of play in a regulation hockey game, or an overtime playing segment.

Pipe: A goal post.

Playing The Man: A player will check the offensive player who has the puck but will leave the puck to be recovered by one of his teammates.

Playing The Puck: When a goaltender leaves the goal to handle the puck, this would include passing the puck or to clear it from the zone.

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