Frightening a member of the hockey team (5)
I believe the answer is:
awing
'frightening' is the definition.
(awing is a kind of frightening)
'a member of the hockey team' is the wordplay.
'member of the hockey team' becomes 'wing' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'wing'='AWING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for awing that I've seen before include "Inspiring reverence" , "producing reverence" , "making an impression" , "Causing dread" , "Causing reverent fear" .)