DCHP-3

penalty shot

Hockey
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a penalty permitting a designated player of the non-offending team to play the puck from centre ice and take one shot at the opposing goal, all other players except the defending goalkeeper remaining out of the play.

Quotations

1962
[He] added an even unlikelier goal on a rarely called penalty shot. . . .
1965
For a time I thought the penalty shot would become extinct through lack of application.