Someone who can`t skate and looks like they are walking around the ice on their ankles. Usually short on athletic skills.
- Why doesn`t John play hockey
- Because he`s an ankle skater
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A hockey player, usually of limited skill, who is tough as nails and willing to do whatever is required of him.
Main jobs are preventing opposing players from taking liberties with his more skilled teammates and giving his team a boost with a well timed donnybrook.
Dave Brown was an ankle skater, yet the greatest protective technician ever to play in the NHL, let alone for the Philadelphia Flyers.