Shorthanded in a sentence

Based on the first period, the Wild's offense didn't seem shorthanded.

Birmingham (2-0) had entered the game with uncertainty, having lost a starting quarterback, running back and receiver to serious injuries in last week's game, leaving them shorthanded.

Except at lunchtime, when the chairs wait empty as the security staff rotates shorthanded to eat, while those who remain on duty shift from sitting to patrol, dipping in and out of rooms at a predictable pace.

Facing their first shorthanded minutes of the postseason after a Josh Manson hooking penalty midway through the first period, the Avalanche passed their first test — and then pair of tests — with flying colors.

If you’re going to try to be competitive in a game when your offense is shorthanded, it helps to play well in the other two phases.

Lakeland’s Janay Williams put away an unassisted shorthanded goal at 9:17 in the second, making it a 4-1 game going into the third.

Olds would collect the first goal of the game shorthanded, but Taber would answer back a few minutes later on the power play as Heston Hansen hit the back of the net.

On another shorthanded Sunday in Clipper Nation, the locals embraced good news where they could find it.

Only moments after McDavid made a brilliant play shorthanded to allow Ryan McLeod to give the Oilers a 3-1 lead.

On Wednesday night, the visiting Kilty’s scored four unanswered goals, two of them while playing shorthanded, to a 5-2 victory, completing a sweep in the third-round series.

That was more than enough for Ober, who struck out six, walked one and threw a career-high 102 pitches, and the Twins' shorthanded bullpen.

The Mets would like to ease the stress placed on the only other lefty in the pen, Brooks Raley, and they were caught shorthanded in Sunday’s loss to the Phillies.

With the Falcons on a power play, Holy Cross scored a shorthanded goal midway through the second, extending the lead to three goals.

Barclay Goodrow’s go-ahead shorthanded goal in the first period took all the air out of Capital One Arena, which also gave the Rangers a spark to power to the end of the game.

Both teams were a bit shorthanded, the Devils missing senior Bransyn Copas to an ankle injury and the Dragons missing senior Isaac Harding, who was out due to still being in concussion protocol.

But he managed to make a positive impact with two of the biggest defensive plays of the game, both shorthanded.

Carolina has gone 0 for 5 in all three games with the man advantage, while New York got a game-changing shorthanded goal from Chris Kreider in Game 3 to further those frustrations.

Dallas once again dominated the special-teams battle, denying six power plays and scoring twice shorthanded in a 4-0 rout at Xcel Energy Center that extended its point streak against the Wild to nine games (6-0-3).

Early in the first period, Johnston scored shorthanded to give the Stars a 1-0 lead due to an error by Cale Makar.

Everyone will remember Miller’s drop pass to nobody that led to the shorthanded goal for Mercer at 1:35 of the second period.