Meanings
plural empty-net goals · alternative empty net goal
- hobbiesA point scored when a player shoots the puck into the opposing team's net at a time when the opposing team's goalie has been withdrawn from the game for tactical reasons.
Malik added an empty-net goal with 55 seconds left on a length-of-the-ice shot.
2001 February 19, “Carolina close in on Bruins”, in BBC Sport Online, retrieved 14 May 2008Synonyms: empty-netter
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA point scored when a player shoots the puck into the opposing team's net at a time when the opposing team's goalie has been withdrawn from the game for tactical reasons.
Translations
Finnish maali tyhjiin
- maali tyhjiintype of goal
Cite this entry
empty-net goal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/empty-net%20goal
“empty-net goal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/empty-net%20goal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “empty-net goal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/empty-net%20goal.
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