---

• n  a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck
• v  climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

• The "power play," which has transformed big-time hockey into high-pressure shinny, is producing 24% more goals than in the age of the great Howie Morenz.
• A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every .
• It takes the mild-mannered and turns them into screaming soldiers of shinny.

• shinney
• clamber
• scramble
• shin
• skin
• struggle
• sputter

News & Articles

---

• These Are Fascinating Times For The Hamptons It Crowd
  By Christine Bellini They crop up every year like wild strawberries – filling the idles spaces, shop entries, box office lobbies, coffee shop windowsills and pizza parlor alcoves. With their shinny slick covers they tempt even the most reluctant passerby to succumb to their inky world of desire and wanton ownership. These street-walkers of the [...]
  June 18, 2013 - The Sag Harbor Express
• These Are Fascinating Times For The Hamptons It Crowd
  By Christine Bellini They crop up every year like wild strawberries – filling the idles spaces, shop entries, box office lobbies, coffee shop windowsills and pizza parlor alcoves. With their shinny slick covers they tempt even the most reluctant passerby to succumb to their inky world of desire and wanton ownership. These street-walkers of the [...]
  June 18, 2013 - The Sag Harbor Express

Quotes

---

• Matt Stajan in The Chronicle Journal
  They kept coming at us,said Matt Stajan. "We had a number of turnovers . . . it was like shinny hockey out there."
• Wade Dubielewicz in Newsday
  I was scared,said Dubielewicz, who gave up just one more goal in two periods. "I didn't want to go in. It looked like a summer shinny game. That was almost rock-bottom for us."
• Craig Hartsburg in Ottawa Citizen
  For me, (Winchester) is a guy we are going to give a great opportunity to play with really good players right from the start,Hartsburg said yesterday. "From what I've seen at the prospect camp and last week (playing shinny), and from...