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defending zone
noun
The zone between the blue line and the end board in a team's own end of the rink. Same area is the attacking zone for the opposing team.
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That would slow the game a bit by allowing the puck to be passed out of a team's defending zone only as far as the red line, rather than to the far blue line.
The relevant portion of that rule reads, "When any player, while in his defending zone, shoots or bats (using his hand or his stick) the puck directly (nondeflected) out of the playing surface, except where there is no glass, a penalty shall be assessed for delaying the game".
Before that, body-checking was only allowed in the defending zone in international hockey.
Prior to that, body-checking was only allowed in the defending zone in international hockey.
That end will be their defending zone, with that team's Korf inside it.
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Cathy Kenny, a spokeswoman for the New York State Petroleum Council, defended zone pricing as a legitimate competitive practice at a hearing before Mr. Alden's committee.
Females feed within a home range which may overlap other blackcap territories, and covers up to six times the area of the defended zone.
USAAF night fighters had only limited success as raiders were normally detected only shortly before they entered anti-aircraft gun defended zones; these guns shot down most of the 26 Japanese aircraft lost over Morotai.
"We're both just cutting through the middle, and I'm just defending my zone," Orr said.
Many of them think the U.S. should be doing more in Syria — for example, setting up (and defending) "safe zones" for the opposition.
The United States, Britain, France, Turkey, and perhaps other countries could send warplanes to stop Assad's artillery and bombing attacks in a defined area by enforcing a no-fly zone and by helping rebels to defend the zone's perimeter — without putting foreign troops on the ground.
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