Sentence examples for hard checks from inspiring English sources
The opening minutes of the game were fast-paced and filled with hard checks.
He said that head injuries now were more often the result of "a lot of hockey plays gone bad, or good, hard checks that are causing concussions".
Domi dealt a number of hard checks throughout the game and tried to goad Scott Stevens into a fight, but he never earned a penalty.
On Wednesday night and into Thursday morning the Rangers and the Capitals played the longest game so far in these N.H.L. playoffs, a three-overtime, 114-minute masterpiece of frantic saves, bloodied jerseys, blocked shots, hard checks and hit posts.
According to him, lacrosse was where he learned to protect himself from hard checks: "In those days you could be hit from behind in lacrosse, as well as cross-checked, so you had to learn how to roll body checks for self-protection".
Players can withstand the punishment of hard checks by staying alert and taking certain safety measures.
Lots of good hard checking, and they play the way we want to play".
Seconds earlier, Holik had nearly delivered Stevens into his own bench with a hard check.
Three weeks earlier, Wiemer sent Kasparaitis, then with Pittsburgh, to the ice with a hard check.
Johan Franzen cut him off, squeezing him along the boards with a not particularly hard check.
The play unfolded after Matthew Barnaby blindsided Joé Juneau with a hard check in the corner.
