Jan 10, 2012, 01:59 PM
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Hip checks involve the thrower leading with the hip and demolishing the opponent. I love a good, hard hip check like vintage Blake. This wasn't a hip check.
Whether or not you want to argue how far from the written rule interpretations should be allowed to stretch, that's a different discussion. As per the clipping rule verbatim I don't think it applies, but it wasn't a clean hit.
What Marchand did, and how the clipping rule should actually work, is hitting below the opponent's center of mass. That's what's gonna make him flip over top of you, and that's what's dangerous. "Center of mass" is sort of a nebulous, floating point depending on who the person is, so obviously you can't define the rule that way, but below the hips is an easier, though less accurate, way to categorize that area.
That said, Ovechkin throws a hit like this every other game so there is so unfortunate lack of consistency, but he's a dirty piece of trash and should spend half his idiot career suspended.
Edit: In half of those hip check videos the player being hit tries to jump over them and does it to himself. Some of those are valid comparisons. Most are not.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by Little Brenty Brent Brent; Jan 10, 2012 at 02:05 PM.
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