Drop The Hammer: Legal And Not-So-Legal NHL Hits
Drop The Hammer: Legal And Not-So-Legal NHL Hits
The NHL is bringing hits from players like Tom Wilson, Adam Larsson, and Nikita Zaitsev. Gosh we love hockey.
By Jacob Messing
Last week, FloHockey brought you a collaboration of some of the biggest hits from the past couple weeks.
You liked it so much that we decided to bring you a second collaboration of hits over the past week.
We’ve got more checks than the Bank of America, so let’s get right to it.
Washington’s Tom Wilson crushes Buffalo’s Sam Reinhart, fights Jake McCabe.
Wilson lays the on Sam Reinhart, then drops the gloves with Jake McCabe.
— NBC Sports Capitals (@NBCSCapitals) November 8, 2017
Live: https://t.co/NGTPHxGvna pic.twitter.com/HLLiLwluVF
Wilson found another victim in Edmonton’s Adam Larsson.
I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/Uigf5GksJv Capitals’ Wilson takes out Oilers’ Larsson with huge clean hit
— ShamWow! back in YVR (@ShadowSham) November 13, 2017
Arizona’s heavy-hitting Zac Rinaldo catches Washington’s Taylor Chorney.
BOOM Zac Rinaldo hit #Coyotes #Yotes #NHL #WSHvsARI pic.twitter.com/wmnFLzV1kg
— YotesHereToStay (@CoyotesGlendale) November 7, 2017
Boston’s Frank Vatrano lays out Toronto’s Nikita Zaitsev.
New Jersey’s Steve Santini decides Florida’s Aleksander Barkov needs a shift change.
Steven Santini DESTROYS Aleksander Barkov into his own bench! WHAT A HIT! pic.twitter.com/pZF45V393D
— NHL Daily 365 (@NHLDaily365) November 12, 2017
Toronto’s Matt Martin introduces Boston rookie Anders Bjork to his shoulder.
Huge Open Ice Hockey collision. via /r/sports https://t.co/gHaoC8dSon
— Joseph Floyd (@Paola_Rojas_H) November 12, 2017
Washington’s Devante Smith-Pelly crunches Pittsburgh rival Brian Dumoulin.
Dumoulin feeling this Smith-Pelley hit pic.twitter.com/9cer2ojZ8C
— HighLight Hockey (@HILITINGHOCKEY) November 11, 2017
In the not-so-legal department, here’s Edmonton’s Eric Gryba getting a boarding call on the Islanders’ Nikolay Kulemin.
Dear #NHL Kulemin now on IR and probably heading for surgery. Well, where's the discipline for the hit from behind ? #isles https://t.co/iQYS6Ce3wU
— MP (@4Isles4Life) November 9, 2017
. . . followed by L.A.’s Kurtis MacDermid getting tossed after the refs deemed his hit on Ondrej Kase late.
REPLAY: MacDermid’s hit on Kase pic.twitter.com/W3Xlq0uveo
— DucksNPucks (@DucksNPucks) November 8, 2017
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