These are the kind I like. I'm not a big fan of using your hip (whether you go low or not) to cut out a guys legs along the boards. Hip on hip is always a beauty.
To me a hip check is when you match a guys speed and simply derail him by getting your hip on his hip. Perfectly executed here, much like the Sullivan one I posted before
Yeah im not sure i would call the "guy coming to hit me so i will duck and send him flying over me" a real hip check, the ones i enjoy are when an offensive player is skating hard into the zone and the dman matches his speed skating backwards cuts of the angle then bang! It's such a risky play because if you miss ur out of the play!
I wouldn't put Ballard in the same conversation as Hamhuis. Hamhuis knows how to deliver clean hipchecks (same goes with Doughty). A lot of Ballard's hip checks look like they are knee-level.
Considering:
1) Ballard delivers 6x the hips checks as Hamhuis
2) Majority of the players Ballard hits get right back up
those are great hipchecks! aside from the fact that they aren't hipchecks and extremely dirty bridges, which one of them suspended Marchand for like 5 games or something.
those are great hipchecks! aside from the fact that they aren't hipchecks and extremely dirty bridges, which one of them suspended Marchand for like 5 games or something.
stay classy bruins fans
Yeah I agree those are terrible examples. Boychuk and Seidenberg have executed some nice clean hipchecks, these ones were basically dangerous tapletops/bridges
those are great hipchecks! aside from the fact that they aren't hipchecks and extremely dirty bridges, which one of them suspended Marchand for like 5 games or something.
stay classy bruins fans
Please don't group us all together. I agree they were dirty and was pissed he did it
Hall's suspension wasn't an attempted hip check. How often is there a hip check when skating directly at the other player? I don't think the hit was intentionally malicious, but it was just a dangerous play when there was no legit hit to be had.
