Not with his hand if the goalie is in the crease.
However, a player may fall (lay) on his goaltender, inadvertently covering the puck with his body.
Yes. Unlike baseball you can put any player back in the game. HOWEVER if the goalie is pulled its generally because he is not on top of his game and has let in some stupid or lots of goals. Therefore you usually don't see a goalie being put back in.
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the player stays back to protect the teams goal.
Yes but the player can't body check them back and it would be stupid because then the other team would have open net because most goalies aren't the best skating and keeping balance with all there equipment on. So you can but it would be stupid.
It's quite common for a player to use the back of his stick to control the puck. If he uses it for something else, such as to strike another player, that would be a penalty.
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if the center man wins the puck back to his de-fence player
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In publishing, a back cover is the cover protecting the back of a book.
Back checking is when the offensive team turns the puck over and makes the transition to defense by rushing back to the defensive zone and picking a man up to try to get the puck back. Well im not sure what hockey background this person has but that is not what back checking is... I am a former pro hockey player and what it is to back check is this... A: Back Checking is rushing back to the defensive zone in response to an opposing team's attack. Players often try to 'rub up' behind the player with the puck to bother them. At the same time they try to hit the puck away with their stick.
Yes there is lots of slang in hockey. Some examples are "Backcheck" (were a player comes back from the offensive zone to help out defensively. Or you might here "stripes" (another name for a referee).
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