Brendan Smith Delivers Smackdown And Other Brutal Hits
Brendan Smith Delivers Smackdown And Other Brutal Hits
Brendan Smith, Christian Folin, and Brook Orpik contribute to this week's collection of bruising NHL hits.
By Jacob Messing
Here’s your weekly dose of big hits around the NHL, with another mix of pain and a couple lessons in how not to play the body.
In case you missed the last two installments, view them here and here.
Now where were we? Right. More hits.
Los Angeles’ Christian Folin shows Boston’s Danton Heinen how the NHL hits.
Folin crushes Heinen pic.twitter.com/xMMkGmjEp8
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) November 17, 2017
Washington’s Brook Orpik lays a big hit on Colorado’s Vladislav Kamenev.
Brooks Orpik's big hit on Vladislav Kamenev pic.twitter.com/am1wL6MUlg
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) November 17, 2017
Winnipeg’s Dustin Byfuglien shows Philadelphia’s Michael Raffl the ice.
"Did something hit me? I barely noticed.." pic.twitter.com/5Owfe8vUBl
— JetsNation (@NHLJetsNation) November 17, 2017
Buffalo’s Sam Reinhart is on the wrong side of a hit for the second week in a row, thanks to Pittsburgh’s Ian Cole.
Reinhart got dropped, Eichel didn't waste any time dropping the gloves and going after Ian Cole pic.twitter.com/IQRDQxfULn
— Sabres Fanatics (@SabresFanatics) November 15, 2017
Edmonton’s Jesse Puljujarvi looks at home in the NHL with a big hit on St. Louis’ Dmitriy Jaskin.
Jesse Puljujarvi sits Jaskin down with a heavy hit pic.twitter.com/OirAshdgvY
— TheHockeyBible.net (@HockeyBiblenet) November 17, 2017
Montreal’s Max Pacioretty lays a questionable hit on Toronto’s Nazem Kadri, who responds with one of his own on Shea Weber, which he then takes exception to.
A donnybrook!
— HighLight Hockey (@HILITINGHOCKEY) November 19, 2017
Dirty hit on Kadri.
Clean hit on Weber. pic.twitter.com/I4ixOOj7tK
New York Rangers’ Brendan Smith interferes with Ottawa’s Mark Borowiecki, who was knocked unconscious. Smith will likely face discipline from the league.
Smith/Borowiecki hit. Smith gets 5 and a game. Brutal result of two guys looking to hit each other. No malicious intent. pic.twitter.com/0huIwQjg5z
— Dave Shapiro (@BlueSeatBlogs) November 20, 2017
Nashville’s Austin Watson received a two-game suspension for this hit on Colorado’s Dominic Toninato.
Now that ive really looked at this hit I still don’t like it. Glad the guy got thrown from the game https://t.co/P4RHvJPpXW
— UMD mens hockey fans (@bulldog_fans) November 19, 2017
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