Salad and flow: Hockey hair is a beautiful thing (2024)

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Why is hockey hair a thing? ›

The History of Hockey Hair

But hockey hair really got its start in the 70s when men, in general, tended to have longer hair. It was during this time that hockey players with longer hair were noticed for their hair “flowing” behind them as they raced up the ice.

32. Lettuce: Lettuce refers to the hair on a hockey player's head, particularly if it's in good shape or stylish. 33. Light the lamp: When an offensive player scores a goal, a red light above the net illuminates to confirm the play.

Usually reserved for benders and dusters. Salad: beautiful hockey hair. See also: flow, lettuce. Sauce or Saucy: a well-executed saucer pass (a pass that goes in the air and hits back on the ice right before getting to the recipient) that sits flat on the receiving player's tape.

(Remember: "Salad" is hair.) Spencer Kramer has spent 20 years shaping players' salad — basically, mullets — even if players don't always call them that. "I think they're a mullet," he said, "but, for the most part, they either call it 'hockey hair' or 'trim their flow."

Flow is the correct term for the hair of professional and amateur hockey players. It is typically some variation of a mullet with a little extra grease, that typically appears beginning in junior hockey.

Beauty/Beautician: a player who is loved not only for his skills, but for his personality. He is one of the coolest guys on the team and usually has great stories. He might also have the best flow on the team.

Pizza: A brutal pass up the middle of the ice intercepted by the opposing team. "Bidini is serving up more pizzas tonight than Little Caesar's."

The answer is simple — because of the dressing. Today's definition of salad is a variety of cold dishes that include small pieces of food (such as pasta, meat, fruit, or vegetables) mixed with a dressing or mayonnaise. To put it simply, if it's dressed you can feel confident calling it a salad!

Now here is the key – most people underestimate how long flow takes to develop. You need AT LEAST 6 MONTHS for your hair to hit its stride – don't cut this short, or you could be left in the dreaded “Land of in between Flow Stage” (see later point).

What does word salad mean in psychology? ›

noun. 1. psychology : unintelligible, extremely disorganized speech or writing manifested as a symptom of a mental disorder (such as schizophrenia)

WAGs (or Wags) is an acronym used to refer to wives and girlfriends of high-profile sportsmen. The term may also be used in the singular form, WAG, to refer to a specific female partner or life partner who is in a relationship with an athlete.

Comes from the early hockey days when the losing team had to hose down the ice with water after the game because the Zamboni had not been invented yet. Lettuce: a great head of hockey hair. See also: flow, salad. Light the Lamp: to score a goal, in reference to the red light that goes on behind the net.

A puck bunny is a term used to describe a female ice hockey fan whose interest in the sport is purported to be primarily motivated by sexual attraction to the players rather than enjoyment of the game itself.

Thick, luscious and gravity-defying, Jaromir Jagr's mullet will forever be a staple of the history of hockey hair. There has never been a head of hair like Jagr's in the history of the league, and his selfish on-ice personality leads you to think he spent a lot of time on it.

Without length, flow is simply flow. A mullet cannot exist without length, and it can exist quite fruitfully without flow.

You can wear duck boots and leggings too with a vest for the hockey game. But make sure to match your shirt with the vest. Another option is cowboy boots with skinny jeans. Sweater, skinny jeans tucked in high knitted socks paired with cowboy boots is sure to make you look attractive.

The butterfly position can be seen today in nets at all levels. Basically, it's when a goalie drops down to their knees and spreads their pads to cover the bottom of the net.

The Stanley Cup playoff beard has been an NHL tradition since the early 1980s, when the shaggy New York Islanders won four straight championships. It represents the players' singular focus, as if even personal hygiene is sacrificed in pursuit of hockey's holy grail.

What does Tilly mean in hockey? ›

Puttin' on the foil has become a reference to getting ready to fight. Snarl: The step before the donnybrook/dropping the mitts/tilly/fisticuffs. Tilly: Oh look, it's another word for a fight!

Puck Hog: A player who does not pass the puck. Puck Luck: When the puck takes a lucky bounce for a team usually resulting in a goal. Puckhead: A person who is passionate about hockey.

“A Good Hockey Player Plays Where The Puck Is. A Great Hockey Player Plays Where The Puck Is Going To Be” – Wayne Gretzky.

So: a rat—tough to kill, and something of a heroic pest. In hockey, when you're a kid, it's generally a good thing to be thought of as a rink rat. That means you're always near the ice, you can't get enough of it, and your game is probably always growing.

An apple: an assist.

Due to his surname being the same as a world-famous food corporation, Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jack Campbell will forever be tied to soup. “Soup” has become the go-to way for friends and fans to refer to the 29-year-old Leafs goalie who has been playing lights-out hockey nearly every night this season.

Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US)

In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too. However, in the UK, people LOVE biscuits (especially with tea) and there are hundreds of different varieties that aren't called cookies, too.

The U.S. term “eggplant” dates from the middle of the 18th century and is named after the white and yellow versions of the vegetable, which as whoever coined the word noted, resemble goose eggs.

What do the British call potato chips? ›

If you want a bag of what Americans call 'chips' in the UK, just ask for crisps.

Hair grows about 1/2 inch per month on average , So it will take 2years for 12 inches.

As part of their word salad, they will throw random words and comments into the conversation that have nothing to do with what you are talking about and make no sense. This is to throw you off and distract you from the point you are trying to make.

Positive Symptoms: The Disorganized Dimension

Occasionally, speech is so disorganized that it becomes a completely jumbled "word salad" devoid of discernible meaning despite being full of words.

The narcissistic word salad is a verbal assassination. The term “word salad” refers to a circular language tactic used by one individual to ensure that talks never end positively for the other. It is a technique for exerting influence over another person's views or ideas, emotional response, or access to information.

Hockey players have long hair because it helps with their helmets. Their helmets are designed to protect them from head injuries, but they can also cause some problems. For example, if the helmet is too tight, it can cause headaches and even neck pain. To solve this problem, hockey players wear their hair long.

Meaghan Jones, a post-doctoral fellow from The University of British Columbia explains that a genetic process known as incomplete dominance accounts for the phenomenon of having dark hair and a red beard. The dark hair gene comes from one parent, and the red hair gene from the other.

This rule was passed to prevent collisions (and therefore injuries) as players raced for the puck in an icing situation, trying to touch it first. In a potential icing scenario, if the goalie leaves his crease and touches the puck first, it's not icing and play continues.

Hockey is a High-Intensity Interval Sport

Not only is this a great way to build muscle, but it's also a great way to burn fat — even as you rest between intervals, your body continues to burn calories.

Why is hockey so exhausting? ›

Basically hockey is a high speed, full body workout. It is very tiring because it is a full body work out + cardio— not only that, it requires a lot of brain power as well!

Hockey pucks are responsible for many lost teeth on the ice, mostly because they are made of an extremely hard material known as vulcanized rubber, which has been heated to make it more durable.

The intensity and volume of hockey is often adequate for breaking down the muscle fibers and thus causing an increase in leg and hip muscle size in novice and average players.

Northern and Northwestern Europe

Ireland has the highest number of red-haired people per capita in the world with the percentage of those with red hair at around 10%.

Redheads often stand out from the crowd with their fiery-colored hair. But their genetics, namely two copies of the MC1R gene, may put them at a higher or lower risk for many health conditions than others. For instance, some people with red hair may have an increased risk of skin cancer.

Less than 2 percent of the world's population has red hair, making it the rarest hair color in the world. It's the result of the mutated MC1R gene. If both parents carry that gene, their child has a 25% chance of getting lovely, red locks, even if the parents don't have red hair themselves.

Typically, a misconduct penalty will be accompanied by a minor penalty, sometimes called a “two and ten,” because the minor penalty is two minutes and the misconduct is ten minutes.

Allowing fighting makes the sport safer overall by holding players accountable. Fighting draws fans and increases the game's entertainment value. Fighting is a hockey tradition that exists in the official rules and as an unwritten code among players.