Sentence examples for drop of the puck from inspiring English sources

You play the game showing up every night for the drop of the puck".

"When you are doing play-by-play, it's just nonstop from the drop of the puck.

I didn't even see the drop of the puck and a lot of guys didn't even see the game.

"We're averaging 21 to 22 seconds on face-offs from the whistle to the drop of the puck," van Hellemond said.

He also said the Kings must have "urgency coming out right off the drop of the puck.

The unity in that room and during countless evenings spent in cold arenas since stood in stark contrast to the divisions with Philadelphia's Wachovia Center on Saturday night, when vice-presidential hopeful and avowed hockey mom Sarah Palin turned an already volatile meeting between the Flyers and the New York Rangers into a referendum on the presidential election with the drop of a puck.

The N.H.L. studied four of its playoff games this spring, according to the executive vice president Colin Campbell, and discovered that in one of the games, it took an average of 52 seconds to drop the puck.

But he then lost track of the puck, dropping it and allowing it to fall underneath him.

If the second center does not set himself quickly, the linesman can drop the puck quickly or call a minor delay-of-game penalty.

"You get the water off the ice, get a clean scrape and drop the puck," said Flood, a former captain of the Williams College hockey team.

"There's a chance of the rain ending between 6 and 8 p.m., and you can drop the puck between those hours".