Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wounded duck


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 15:39, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Wounded duck
Seems to be a hoax. I asked at the discussion page of Ice Hockey first and no-one has indicated that they recognize the term. No reference found in Google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GringoInChile (talk • contribs)


 * Delete: The term is a neologism that relates to more than just hockey and I can find no valid source for the quote used in the article for "notability".  On top of that, the article has a hoax fact that the term is somehow related to the "knucklepuck" shot from the Mighty Ducks movie(s) (a "wounded duck" has no power behind it and flobs to its target, like a tipped pass in football; the knucklepuck takes an erratic flight similar to a knuckleball pitch, due to intentional end-over-end rotation of the puck).  ju66l3r 17:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete: I've heard the term used (very rarely) to describe a wobbly or errant pass in football; certainly not in hockey, to which the article alludes.  Even with that there are just a handful of G-hits, and far more in terms of sportswriters fishing for turns of phrase less banal than usual than for a catchphrase the public might find recognizable.  RGTraynor 23:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete I have never heard this term used in my 23 years of hockey fandom. Resolute 05:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


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