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Cherry Picking: When a player, generally a forward, hangs out behind the play waiting for a outlet pass so that he can have a breakaway.

Chicklets: Teeth.

Chippy: Players are getting irritated with one another.

Clear: To pass, poke, or deflect the puck away from one's own goal cage, or out of the defensive zone. As a noun, the act of clearing.

Clear The Zone: When a defenseman moves the puck out of the defending zone before it can be shot on goal.

Clearing: Getting the puck out of your defensive zone, so the other team canít take a shot on goal

Clearing The Zone: When a defending player sends the puck out of the opponent's attacking zone, all the attacking players must leave or clear the zone to avoid being called offsides when the puck reenters the zone.

Clipping: This is when a player throws his body, from any direction, across or below the knees of an opponent. Basically you canít check or block another player below the knees. A player who does hit . . . View Full Definition

Coast To Coast: When a player carries the puck from his own end into the offensive end.

Coincidental Penalties: When penalties are given out to opposing players at the same time. The result is that neither team will be playing shorthanded, because both teams will lose a player.

Corner: An area of the rink near one of the four rounded sections where the sideboards and endboards meet.

Cover: When a player stays close to an opponent to prevent him from receiving a pass or making a play on offense.

Covering: When a defensive player guards an offensive player very closely, so closely that the offensive player is not able to take part in the play of the game. However, if this guarding is done too . . . View Full Definition

Crease: This is the area directly in front of the goal. This area is marked out by a semicircle that has a radius of 5 feet 9 inches. The goalkeeper cannot be interfered with in this area.

Crease Lines: The red lines that form the semi-circular area with a 6-foot radius in front of the goal called the goal crease.

Crisscross Attack: This describes when two wingman switch sides of the rink when they are attacking the opposing teams goal.

Cross Bar: The 6-foot-long horizontal bar that connects the tops of the goal posts.

Cross-Checking: A minor penalty which occurs when a player holds his stick in both hands and drives the shaft into an opponent; a stick check where a player has both hands on the stick and no part of the st . . . View Full Definition

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