DCHP-3

barndoor game

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in hockey, a game in which all or most shots on goal are blocked by the goalkeeper.

Quotations

1897
Marshall in goal seemed to be playing a regular barndoor game. . . .Several times the puck was forced into close quarters on the Calgary goal but it did not get through.