1945 R. Fontaine Happy Time 45 Frank Nighbor, Canada's immortal poke-check genius.

1964 Maclean's 2 May 46/1 To me some of the most fascinating moves in hockey..are poke-checks, or well timed interceptions, or expeditions of forechecking.

1981 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 31 Dec. (Sports News section) Melanson stopped a Duguay breakaway with a beautiful pokecheck then made the mistake on Maloney's rebound.

1997 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 22 Oct. d4 (caption) Philadelphia's Chris Gratton (55) eludes a poke check by Tampa Bay goalie Corey Schwab.

1945 T. Raddall Tambour 154 MacNeill backskating like a demon, swung in and pokechecked shrewdly.

1966 Hockey News (Montreal) 1 Jan. 13/2 He poke-checks and sweep-checks like the oldtimers.

1997 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 8 May f3 Jakub Ficenec is on the ice pinching, probing and poke-checking.

1977 G. Woods Bloody Harvest 103 I poke-checked one of their forwards in our end, recovered the puck and started down for their goal for a breakaway with two men back.

1985 Assoc. Press (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Sports News section) On the third Bruins goal, Linseman pokechecked the puck off Chelios' stick, sped in, faked Penney to his knees and gently guided a shot between his pads.

1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Dec. a22/2 He went out of his net to try to poke check Suter at the right faceoff dot.

1997 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 23 Sept. e1 It looked as if Patrick pokechecked the puck off Brian Skrudland's stick.

1991 Boston Globe (Nexis) 27 Nov. 46 He's a fine sweep and poke checker and he knows how to use his speed.

2001 Sports Illustr. (Nexis) 8 Oct. 58 Doesn't try to do too much; uses his stick intelligently—excellent pokechecker and passer.

1963 A. O'Brien Headline Hockey 60 At that point the defenceman will likely resort to poke-checking.

2003 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 12 July (Final ed.) (Sports section) e4 Steel City Hockey Pre-Season Defenceman Clinic... Involves angling players, pokechecking, puck control, [etc.].