slap shot

NOUN

ice hockey maneuver

Synonyms

WEAK

flick wrist shot

Example Sentences

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Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb was forced to leave Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Thursday after taking a puck to his face on a slap shot midway through the first period.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Leave it to “SNL” to bungle what should have been a slap shot straight into an open goal.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Bouchard doubled the lead six minutes later, firing a slap shot past Kuemper from the top of the circles three seconds after the Kings’ Andrei Kuzmenko went off for interference.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

“Russian Machine never breaks,” Ovechkin once said, after limping off the ice courtesy of a slap shot to the foot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2025

Now she looks up . . . and Amigliato takes a slap shot!

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides