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Meanwhile, Matthew is seen as the driving force behind the Florida Panthers’ emergence as a hockey powerhouse, helping mold the franchise while leading them to two Stanley Cup Finals wins.—Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Those are long years, short summers, a lot more hockey.—Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025 What’s fall reading without a little hockey romance?—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025 Getting swallowed by a tech giant expecting hockey-stick growth has proved untenable.—Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hockey
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Etymology
perhaps from Middle French hoquet shepherd's crook, diminutive of hoc hook, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hōc hook
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