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.

Nov 15, 2017 by Hunter Sharpless
Drop The Hammer: Legal And Not-So-Legal NHL Hits

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 found another victim in Edmonton’s Adam Larsson.



Arizona’s heavy-hitting Zac Rinaldo catches Washington’s Taylor Chorney.



Boston’s Frank Vatrano lays out Toronto’s Nikita Zaitsev.




New Jersey’s Steve Santini decides Florida’s Aleksander Barkov needs a shift change.



Toronto’s Matt Martin introduces Boston rookie Anders Bjork to his shoulder.



Washington’s Devante Smith-Pelly crunches Pittsburgh rival Brian Dumoulin.



In the not-so-legal department, here’s Edmonton’s Eric Gryba getting a boarding call on the Islanders’ Nikolay Kulemin.



. . . followed by L.A.’s Kurtis MacDermid getting tossed after the refs deemed his hit on Ondrej Kase late.




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