pwnd

straight up ownage.

i played hockey for 25 years. gave a lot of these and took some too. let me just tell you, a common misconception of hockey "fans" is the board checks hurt, they dont, these do. mostly afterwards. oh and what ever the idiots are commenting when you watch this........this was a 100% clean hit. no charge, no elbow, all shoulder. some said that he didnt have posession of the puck, well he did, if the puck is in your skates then you are in posession of it. why he looked at Kronwall and then decided to look down at the puck i will never know. thats one of the biggest rules in hockey, if the puck is in your skates never look down at it. unlike the cambell hit on umburger a couple years ago, havlat has nobody to blame but himself here, he wasnt given a hospital aka buddy pass at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KJm-qcnnC0

What do they first teach you when you first start checking in Bantams? Always keep your head up. If I were him and I saw the defenseman coming at me, I would have chipped the puck against the boards and skated around him.

heh, my football coach called that "exploding on impact". i dont know much about hockey, but that looked like a clean hit to me.

I think the commentators cannot tell the arse from their elbow, his shoulder hit the guy square in his face. Looks like a noob mistake by the player that got take out.

This was the exact same situation. I know I seem like a broken record posting this image, but this one applies perfectly. The defenseman passes the puck from behind the net to the wing. I stepped him when the puck was about to hit his stick and hit him. Those type of hits are mainly the defensemen's fault for not noticing the opponent stepping up.

badinfluence wrote:What do they first teach you when you first start checking in Bantams? Always keep your head up. If I were him and I saw the defenseman coming at me, I would have chipped the puck against the boards and skated around him.

oooof, you failed that test man. you would have been toast just like him. he had no where near enough time to do that. his best bet there was to let the puck go and drop his shoulder into Kronwall.

That's why I do the hitting. : )

i luv that pic bi. i still think you look like a fooking giant.