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forecheck
Hockey
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
check an opponent in his own defensive zone, to prevent the opposing team from organizing an attack.
Quotations
1963
One night . . . the ... coach approached me . . . to ask if it were usual in Canada to do as the Whitby team was doing in sending two players in to forecheck a puck-carrier in the latter's zone?
1964
But when the Leafs are going well, there's a doggedness about their play; they forecheck ferociously; they knock down a lot of people at the blue line, and they grab and hold a lot more people in front of the goalmouth.