Sentence examples for hip check from inspiring English sources
verb
Performing a hip check
Darcy Tucker's low hip check of Peca in Game 5 resulted in reconstructive knee surgery and a six-month recovery.
Lindros was injured by Nashville's Vladimir Orszagh, on an attempted hip check along the boards just inside the Rangers' blue line.
This was a contemporary twist on an old-fashioned technique: not a hip check, now considered a fading art, but a "bum" check, in Cherry's formulation.
In the second period, Vancouver defenseman Dan Hamhuis went low on a legal hip check that sent the Bruins' Milan Lucic somersaulting to the ice.
He earned a reputation as a rangy, ferocious defenseman who can end an opponent's rush with a well-timed hip check into the boards.
The British referee calls a penalty after USA's Megan Bozek is hip checked into the boards by Tara Watchorn.
There have been Court of Dream moments when ancients like Frank McGuire, Buck Freeman and Joe Lapchick seemed to be swatting away shots, deflecting opposing passes, inflicting hip checks.
Hip checks aren't the problem.
Blake, known for his jarring hip checks and booming shot, won the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenseman in 1998.
Known for his hard hitting, specifically with hip checks, he led his club in hits during his first five years in the NHL.
