rag

Hockey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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retain control of the puck by superior stickhandling and deceptive play, the object being to waste time while killing a penalty or protecting a lead.

Quotations

1963

. . . replacements were few and speed lagged at the end or when players "ragged" the puck in mid-ice to kill off penalties.

1964

[They] controlled the puck, ragging it so skillfully that the crowd roared with approval.