Glossary

A living reference of Hockay terminology. Add entries by opening a pull request—the “Edit this page” link below lands on GitHub’s web editor for this file. Cross-link generously—most terms have a dedicated page.

A

Advisory—see LPCHUIP advisories.
All-Star games—two exhibition matchdays after The Final, one per conference, played by the Verglas All-Stars and the Givre All-Stars. Excluded from standings and odds. Exists because a petition carried.
The Almighty Ice—the god of Hockay. Alive, intent-ful, spreading. → Page
Allegiance vote—the ballot on Stewardship, one to each register. Two thirds of the frozen register to align. Forty-six declined. Busan and Helsinki did not. → Page
Ancient—ambiguous player modifier. Also the Atlantis arena modifier, whose effect is Glacified. → Page
Apostate—the badge for setting one Idol down for another. Le Council does not award it as a compliment.
A.P.S.P.—l’Agence des Pétitions et Sceaux Publics. Receives filings, issues seals. → Page
Arena modifier—semi-permanent trait tied to a team’s home building. One per arena, forty-eight in total. → Page
Assessment—what a citizen owes in wealth tax. What the balance cannot cover stands outstanding until S.L.U.S.H. settles it on Tuesday.
Aurora Tuesdays—calendar rule. Player modifiers amplified.
Awake—positive player modifier. → Page

B

Binder—where a citizen’s cards live. One hundred and fifty cards (one hundred at opening). A sociétaire holds a second. Public, on the profile.
Blister—a sealed packet of cards, bought from La Confrérie with Looneys and nothing else. → Page
Le Blister des Séries—the first special edition, S03P. Every postseason team of Season 3, Rare or better, three a day. Never struck again. → Page
Blocked shot—one of three stats the record counts from Season 4, now that G.L.A.S.S. sees every player. With takeaways and giveaways.
The Blue Glaze—a Miracle. The lights fail and the ice produces its own.
Bracket—the playoff structure. Each conference runs its own—Wildcard, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Conference Final—and the two winners meet in The Final. → Page
Brittle—negative player modifier. → Page
B.U.T.—Bets Underwriting Team. Underwrites all bets and ensures payout. Grades a bet at the horn and pays it at the close of the matchday. → Page
Buyback—Graine Wetsky Funds’ standing bid for citizens’ kcups. The only standing bid a Ⓚ has. → Page

C

La Caisse—La Caisse Populaire des Fanatiques Partisans du Hockay. Le Council’s member-owned fund, paid in real dollars. It does not sell civic voice. → Page
Calendar rule—a league-wide rule attached to a day of the week. → Page
C.A.R.D.—Confrérie Artistique pour la Reproduction et la Distribution, signed La Confrérie. Prints cards. Does not appraise them. → Page
Card—a player in a season, or a single game, struck by La Confrérie and numbered. It does not update. → Page
The Church of the Ice—forty-eight parishes, one to each arena. Petitioned into existence. → Page
Clean Ice—a match modifier declaring no modifier. Announced as a modifier.
Condition—a card’s wear, from Minted down to Scrapped. Every trip through the Recycler costs one step.
Conference—La Conférence du Verglas or du Givre. Twenty-four teams each. → Page
Conference Final—the last round inside a conference. Best of three. The winner goes to The Final.
La Confrérie—see C.A.R.D.
Consecration—giving Ice Shavings to a parish reliquary. Final. Nothing comes back.
Consultation—a ballot Le Council puts to the community. → Page
Counter—a different half put up against an offer on Le Marché Gelé. Only the citizen who filed the offer may accept one.

D

Daily Register—the checklist at /today of what a citizen can still do today. Resets at midnight UITC.
Dispatches—a player’s record of goals, assists, fights, trips to the Sixth, modifiers, and injuries, as they aired. On the player’s page, with its own RSS feed. → Page
Donation—a one-way gift of shares or Looneys, recorded on the public roll. A gift and not a sale. → Page
Dormancy tax—a tenth of the Looneys of any citizen who has not claimed a daily reward in seven days. → Page
Double or Nothing—match modifier. Double points, double payouts.
Doubled—ambiguous player modifier. One event per game duplicates. → Page

E

Echo—positive player modifier. → Page
Edition—the series a card was struck in, printed at its foot beside the print number: S03, the special edition S03P, and, from The Eve, S04. Each has its own runs and its own numbers, starting at one. → Page
Emolument—§7 of the Stewardship Offer. A daily distribution to holders, “at a rate the Funds determine and may revise”.
The Exchange—the stock market in the forty-eight teams, settled by S.L.U.S.H. → Page

F

Fair value—since Season 4, the average of a team’s price before and after a Series ∞ round. It replaced the S.L.U.S.H. analysts’ mark, which was drawn from the standings. → Page
The Final—the last playoff game. One-hour periods. Played on neutral ice at Graine Wetsky Arena since Season 3. → Page
Finish—Standard, Frost, Gold or Foil. Separate from rarity. A Common in Foil is not a mistake. → Page
Fiscal Observation Office—the office of Le Council that declined to read aloud how far Looneys grew in the first week of October. → Page
Fist-Fight Fridays—calendar rule. Fights and penalty minutes roughly double.
Flicker—arena modifier at The Watch Station.
Fog—match modifier. Goalies see less.
Foggy—negative player modifier. → Page
Frozen register—the electorate of an allegiance vote, fixed when the ballot opens. Shares bought afterwards count for nothing. Shares sold afterwards still count.

G

Game card—a single night, preserved as a card. The Season 3 Final is printed Legendary.
Givre—the pale ice: frost and rime, soft-surfaced, feathered. One of the two conferences. → Page
la Glacière—where O.F.F.R.E. holds both halves of an open offer. A share in it still earns its dividend and keeps its vote. → Page
Glacified—the Hockay term for classified. → Page
The Glaze Settled—the Miracle that leaves a Mark. The light leaves the ice and stays on one player.
G.L.A.S.S.—Graphical Live Audiovisual Streaming Service. The community-funded live rink renderer. Exists because a petition carried.
Graine Wetsky Arena—the forty-ninth building. Recovered ice, a jurisdiction of its own, no article in its name. Site of the Season 3 Final, and home ice of Busan and Helsinki from Season 4. “The Ice did not raise this one.” → Page
Graine Wetsky Funds—the institution behind Series H, Series I, the Recovery Assemblies, and an arena. Origins Glacified. → Page

H

H.A.B.S.—Hockay Accessibility and Beginner Subvention. Funds the enrolment bonus.
Hall of Fame—where honoured players, teams and fans are inducted, with the date. → Page
Hollow—weird player modifier. Effects Glacified. → Page
H.O.R.N.—Hockay Official Relay Network. The broadcast arm of LPCHUIP. → Page
Hockay—the sport. Pronounced “Hockay” or “Hoqué.” Not “Hockey.”
Hokcay—the spelling in Graine Wetsky Funds’ own filings. Not a typo. Not to be corrected.

I

Ice Shavings—the second currency, denominated in kcups (Ⓚ). What The Jambono leaves behind. → Page
Idol—the one player a citizen follows. Seven days before it can be changed. → Page
Injury—new in Season 4. Graded at the next break: Minor (out for the game), Major (out for a number of games; a free agent dresses in the seat), or Career-ending (the player retires; the replacement is ratified at the next S.H.I.F.T.). → Page
Inter—the label on a cross-conference matchup. No conference tag, no accent.
Intersaison—the gap between seasons. The S.H.I.F.T., the Resurfacing, the dividends, and sometimes twenty-four new teams. → Page
Isolation—arena modifier at The Last Terminal. Suppresses all external modifiers on visitors.

J

The Jambono—resurfaces reality. Caretaker or corruptor. → Page
Jambono-Cooked—the distinction issued to the fifty-eight citizens reached by The Jambono’s second pass on 7 October 2026. Not an honour. Not a penalty. A record. → Page
JM—Jean-Michel “JM” Laflèche. Play-by-play commentator. → Page

K

kcup (Ⓚ)—the unit of Ice Shavings. Exactly one Hockay Puck of volume.

L

L.A.M.P.—Ledger of Advisories, Matters Personal. The lamp that lights when something happens to you. → Page
The Last Mile—match modifier on the final day of the regular season. Standings points count twice. Payouts do not.
Listed—the mark on a card in a binder that is held in an open offer on Le Marché Gelé. It cannot be recycled.
Looneys (Ⱡ)—the official currency of Hockay. Cannot be bought. → Page
LPCHUIP—Le Permanent Council du Hockay and Unexplained Ice Phenomena. The governing body. → Page
L.U.R.E.—League Unit for Recruitment and Enrolment. The referral programme. “It issues bonds. It does not vouch for whom you bring.”
Lure—arena modifier at The Still Strait.
Luminous—positive player modifier. → Page

M

Magnetic—ambiguous player modifier. The Puck finds them. → Page
Le Marché Gelé—where citizens trade directly with one another: Looneys, shavings, shares, cards. Administered by O.F.F.R.E. → Page
The Mark—what a player carries after The Glaze Settled. Enveloped, Wrapped, Touched, Blanched, or Frostbitten. → Page
Match modifier—per-game condition announced in an advisory. → Page
Matchday—a full slate of 24 games, one at the top of every hour. Season 4’s regular season has 46, like Season 3’s.
Mercury—match modifier. Losing team gets cumulative boost.
Miracle—something The Ice does at a parish, unannounced and unexplained. → Page
Muted Mondays—calendar rule. Arena modifiers suppressed league-wide.

N

Net worth—Looneys in hand, plus Looneys committed elsewhere, plus every share at what S.L.U.S.H. would settle today. Since 20 August. → Page
Notice of Abandonment—a private letter to a citizen who has not claimed a daily reward in thirty-five days. Seven days to appear, or the shares return to the pool. → Page

O

O.D.D.S.—Office of Data-Driven Speculation. Publishes odds. → Page
O.F.F.R.E.—Office for the Fair Facilitation of Reciprocal Endowment. Administers Le Marché Gelé. Le Council does not. → Page
O.M.E.N.—Oracle for Mathematical Estimation and Numerology. NOT affiliated. → Page
Open ice—the part of a team’s register still sitting on the pool, unbought. Drives the brokerage rate. → Page
Open Ice Levy—the brokerage band that rises as a register empties. A share leg on Le Marché Gelé pays it too, where it exceeds the commission. → Page
Outbid—a S.H.I.F.T. bid that stood and lost the contest. Shareholders do not choose between bids. They can only reject them.
Overclock—arena modifier at The Neon Crossing. More events per period.

P

Parish—the congregation at an arena. A parish is not a building; the building was already there. → Page
Period—15 minutes in regular season, 60 minutes in The Final.
Petition—a formal filing to l’Agence. On reaching threshold, Le Council must act. → Page
Player modifier—trait gained, lost, or swapped in the Sixth. → Page
Print number—a card’s serial within its run, assigned in the order it was struck. There is only ever one number one.
The Puck—the referee. Speaks once per season, enciphered. → Page

R

Rarity—Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic or Legendary. Set by the player, not by the packet. → Page
Ratification—a S.H.I.F.T. vote on a signing a front office already made mid-season, after a career-ending injury. → Page
Reblister—five cards drawn blind from everything ever recycled. The same cards, not copies. Opens at Ⱡ1,000. → Page
Recovery Assembly—the Funds’ machine in every building that catches shavings before the ice takes them back. Rebuilt deeper twice in September. → Page
Recovery Zone—the jurisdiction constituted on 3 September whose territory is Graine Wetsky Arena, and nothing else.
Recycling—handing a card back to La Confrérie for Looneys. The card goes into the bin, one condition worse. → Page
The Register—Le Council’s record of Miracles, kept since 16 August.
Regulation sheet—1,012,800 kcups of Ice Shavings, per R.I.N.K. → Page
Reliquary—where consecrated Ice Shavings go. It does not give things back. → Page
Rest Day—the day after The Final. No games. No announcements.
The Resurfacing—what the Jambono does between seasons. Since 7 October, also the ledger entry left on every citizen reached by its second pass, which shaved every stack above Ⱡ1,000,000,000. Nobody passed anybody. → Page
Returned—a rivalry held in both directions.
R.I.N.K.—Royal Institute for Nascent Kinetics. Affiliated institution. Nature Glacified. → Page
Rivalry—a one-way grudge, named by fans or earned in a postseason elimination. One earned in the postseason does not fade. → Page
Riviera—arena modifier at The Coastal Pavilion. The only dual modifier.
The Roll—the roll of parishes, the roll of donations, the roll of Le Marché Gelé, or the roll of sociétaires. Le Council keeps all of them and interprets none.
Round—one week of Series ∞: bids open Monday, lock Saturday, resolve Sunday. Numbered by season: 4.0, 4.1, and so on.
Run Deep—B.U.T.’s playoff market. One per qualifying team, one rung per round. A team’s tickets lock while its series is on.

S

Second Chance Sundays—calendar rule. The only one that changes a result directly.
The Second Reckoning—the Season 2 awards ballot. Thirteen categories, twelve leaders, one tie. → Page
Series ∞—weekly issuance from Season 4. Every team puts new shares up for sealed bid every week; the bids set the price. “S.L.U.S.H. does not print. S.L.U.S.H. settles.” → Page
Series H—the round that opened team equity to fans. → Page
Series I—the round that took every register from one million shares to five. → Page
Sharp—positive player modifier. → Page
S.H.I.F.T.—Seasonal Hearing on Interclub Formations and Transfers. The transfer window. → Page
The Sixth—the sixth dimension. Where the penalty box leads. → Page
Sixth Saturdays—calendar rule. Returns from the Sixth shift to an even gain/lose/swap.
S.L.U.S.H.—Société for the Liquidation of Unsettled Share Holdings. Settles the Exchange, and on Tuesdays, unpaid tax. → Page
Sociétaire—a member-owner of La Caisse. Not a shareholder. Owed no return.
S.T.A.M.P.S.—Seals of Trust Awarded to Meritorious Public Submissions. One per citizen per administrative day, and you must choose what to spend it on—unless you are a sociétaire, in which case parish and petition stop competing for it. → Page
Standing instruction—the order in which S.L.U.S.H. sells a citizen’s shares to cover an unpaid assessment. The dearest first, unless told otherwise. → Page
Standings markets—season-long bets on a team finishing first in its conference, or making the playoffs.
Star rating—public 1–5 summary of a player’s ability. The stars are a guide. The Ice is the authority.
Steam—arena modifier at The Dark Sauna.
Stewardship—the alignment of a team’s register with Graine Wetsky Funds, on the terms of the Stewardship Offer of 30 September. Busan and Helsinki are Stewarded, and play their home games at Graine Wetsky Arena from Season 4. → Page
Syrup—arena modifier at The Oldest Rink.

T

Takeaway / giveaway—counted in the box score from Season 4, along with blocked shots. → Page
T.A.P.E.—Team Alignment & Patronage Evaluation. Le Council’s psycho-athletic profiling instrument for team selection.
Thankless Thursdays—calendar rule. Backup goalies start.
Thin Ice—match modifier. Skating reduced for everyone.
Tidal—weird player modifier. Effects Glacified. → Page
T.R.A.D.E.—Tribunal for the Registration and Adjudication of Displaced Employees. Convenes the S.H.I.F.T. → Page
Tranche—the block of new shares a team puts up in one Series ∞ round. The first is five percent of every register.
Translated—weird player modifier. Language Glacified. → Page
Tribute—the ceremonial levy on a donation. Paid by the giver. Burned.

U

UITC—Universal Ice Time Coordinated. Aligns with UTC by “non-coincidence.” → Page
U.I.P.I.—Unexplained Ice Phenomena Index. Le Council’s classification scale, revised up and down over seasons.
Unexplained Ice Phenomenon—Le Council’s preferred term for anything it cannot explain. → Page

V

Verglas—the clear ice: hard, glassy, continuous, without grain. One of the two conferences. → Page

W

Wandering—negative player modifier. → Page
Wealth tax—a banded levy, assessed every matchday, on citizens holding more than a hundredth of everything in Hockay. Most never will. → Page
Weird Wednesdays—calendar rule. The home side plays under the visitor’s arena condition.
Whiteout—arena modifier at The Frozen Dock.
Wildcard—a single game for the eighth seat. The eighth seed hosts a visitor drawn from ninth through twenty-fourth. → Page
Wishes—arena modifier at The Sandy Parlor.
Written off—whatever Looneys and shares together could not raise for an assessment. Not carried, not recorded, not pursued. → Page