clearing pass

Hockey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a forward pass of the puck intended to get it out of the defending team's end of the rink.

Quotations

1963

He scored on a pass from Tremblay who had trapped a clearing pass by McNeill inside the Detroit blue line.

1967

A Leaf clearing pass was halted by Mohns, who shot the puck to Makita.