cross-checking

Hockey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an illegal manner of checking an opponent. See 1963 quote.

Quotations

1958

Derf Swanston sat out two minutes at 4.08 for cross-checking. . . .

1963

The rule on cross-checking calls it "a check delivered with both hands on the stick and no part of the stick on the ice."

1966

. . . during some cross-checking he cut John's lip to earn a five-minute penalty.