defenceman

Noun

Meaning

defenceman (plural defencemen)

In ice hockey and lacrosse, a player position with a primary responsibility to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals; same as defender in many other ballgames.

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Examples

And if it were true, why was he traded for another defenceman who, despite being more physical and having a frame that frequently earns the “man-mountain” descriptor, is himself not an enforcer? Source: Internet

Galchenyuk tied the game with under five minutes left, with his first point since being traded to the Wild on Feb. 10. He scooped a wraparound off Vancouver defenceman Troy Stecher and past Markstrom. Source: Internet

Hughes, a rookie defenceman for the Vancouver Canucks, added he’ll be watching the locker room dynamic closely. Source: Internet

Flyers defenceman Ivan Provorov opened the scoring 28 seconds into period one. Source: Internet

"He's obviously not 100 per cent," said defenceman Jacob Bernard-Docker. Source: Internet

In other moves of note on a 32-trade day, Carolina got centre Vincent Trocheck from Florida and snagged defenceman Sami Vatanen from New Jersey. Source: Internet

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