back-checking

Related to back-checking: stick checking

back-check

(băk′chĕk′)
intr.v. back-checked, back-check·ing, back-checks
To check or defend against an ice hockey opponent while skating back toward one's own goal.

back′-check′er n.
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back-checking

Defensive tackling to break up an attack.
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The institution nonetheless regards better targeted and more extensive back-checking as relatively effective and reliable with one fraud being detected for every nine verifications.The report also points to the type of administrative penalties applied by the various countries: practices vary widely in an area where there are no mutually agreed rules.
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Yet he has been doing other things like back-checking and playing defense to pick up the slack because in the end, he said, it's winning that is important, not goals.
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The third-line center excels at everything else he does - penalty-killing, forechecking, back-checking, scoring - and he hasn't been tried on the PP in some time.
I might not always be scoring, but I'm usually one of the first guys back-checking.