Wiktionary
n. (context ice hockey English) The ice between a team's own blue line and its end board.
Usage examples of "defensive zone".
They had reached the defensive zone around the Belletiener perimeter.
Back and back, then, inch by inch and foot by foot, the Black Lensman's defensive zone was forced.
My perimeter defenses are still engaged, and I have operational orders to kill anyone who enters my inner defensive zone without proper Code Alpha authorization.
Five minutes later, as they approached the defensive zone surrounding Tikrit, three different Iraqi radar sites locked on to the plane.
The area beyond the gate was open for about a hundred metersan obvious cleared defensive zone.
Still, as they moved north, traffic increased and they were clearly progressing into a defensive zone-which meant the backside of a Fluxland shield.
Still, as they moved north, traffic increased and they were clearly progressing into a defensive zone—.
Thani, his baton-master, had shown him that: maintain your defensive zone as though it is a wall of steel, and nothing would get through it.