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A hockey puck is frozen rubber designed to hurt exactly as much as it should.
means A puck is the hard, flat rubber disc that players shoot and smack across the ice in hockey.
from Of uncertain origin — most likely related to the Scottish/Irish verb 'puck' or 'pook,' meaning to hit or poke, which fits a disc whose entire purpose is to be struck. It's probably not connected to the mischievous sprite Puck of folklore, though the overlap in name is a fun coincidence that some like to claim as kinship anyway.
- pregame prep
- frozen before games so it slides, not bounces
- speed record
- slapshots have topped 110 mph
- shape logic
- flat disc beats a ball at staying put on ice
- name origin
- likely from a Scottish word for a shove