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Both players at full speed heading into the boards, big bump/hit up high on the body 10 feet from the boards send the player horizontally head first into the boards. Sick to watch. Plain stupidity and brainless on the part of the checker.

And saying that he didn't mean it is no excuse. Sure he didn't mean to paralyze the guy, but his brain was not programmed to consider that hitting the guy was a problem for either one of them.

This kind of hit and anything remotely close to it, up high on the body, should be a season suspension if any injury and 10 games if no injury. Maybe that would get players to think differently about their responsibility in these situations. Get this crap and the mindless players that perpetuate it out of the sport! Sickening!

NextGoalWins wrote:http://bleacherreport.com/tb/d9T5z?utm_ ... mpaign=nhl

Both players at full speed heading into the boards, big bump/hit up high on the body 10 feet from the boards send the player horizontally head first into the boards. Sick to watch. Plain stupidity and brainless on the part of the checker.

And saying that he didn't mean it is no excuse. Sure he didn't mean to paralyze the guy, but his brain was not programmed to consider that hitting the guy was a problem for either one of them.

This kind of hit and anything remotely close to it, up high on the body, should be a season suspension if any injury and 10 games if no injury. Maybe that would get players to think differently about their responsibility in these situations. Get this crap and the mindless players that perpetuate it out of the sport! Sickening!

The defensive player actually initiates the contact. He looks back at the forechecking player and starts to drive his shoulder into the oncoming forechecking player. This type of hit will always be a part of the sport. Their is body contact and hockey is played at a high rate of speed. If you want it out of the game then i guess checking and body contact go with it!! You chose!

Deck Slide wrote:

NextGoalWins wrote:http://bleacherreport.com/tb/d9T5z?utm_ ... mpaign=nhl

Both players at full speed heading into the boards, big bump/hit up high on the body 10 feet from the boards send the player horizontally head first into the boards. Sick to watch. Plain stupidity and brainless on the part of the checker.

And saying that he didn't mean it is no excuse. Sure he didn't mean to paralyze the guy, but his brain was not programmed to consider that hitting the guy was a problem for either one of them.

This kind of hit and anything remotely close to it, up high on the body, should be a season suspension if any injury and 10 games if no injury. Maybe that would get players to think differently about their responsibility in these situations. Get this crap and the mindless players that perpetuate it out of the sport! Sickening!

The defensive player actually initiates the contact. He looks back at the forechecking player and starts to drive his shoulder into the oncoming forechecking player. This type of hit will always be a part of the sport. Their is body contact and hockey is played at a high rate of speed. If you want it out of the game then i guess checking and body contact go with it!! You chose!

I agree that the defensive player does initiate the first contact but the forechecking player extends his arms and makes shoulder and even some head contact with his arms and stick to literally toss the player into the boards. Proper technique would have called for the forechecking player to ride the deffensive player hip to hip and hand to hand into the boards for a proper check he also had the option of "hugging" the player into the boards, he chose neither. So in this instance I have to disagree with you. There was no reason to extend the arms and toss the defensive player like that, he could have easily just road him into the boards for a proper check. Granted the defensive player did himself no favors by initiating contact without playing the puck, had he just played the puck and took the check at the boards he would also be fine but at the end of the day his intereference doesn't warrant being launched into the boards and paralyzed, the forechecking player is completely at fault and he used poor technique that lead to a horrific injury, I agree with the intitial poster there is no place in the game for that.

Really? This type of hit will always be part of the game? Thanks for proving my point about the mindless part that needs to be removed. You hopefully are not someone that plays or coaches the game because you have no concept of what this is all about. Scary!

Get rid of body contact? Not at all. Get rid of mindless idiotic hits by guys that have no concept of consequences of their actions? Yes! Huge penalties are the only way to get this through to players and coaches that just don't get it or don't want to be bothered to think.

Watch the slow motion part of the video again. The defender LEANS into the forward, STILL WITH HIS BACK TO HIM, and then the forward THROWS him into the boards. You make it sound like the defender hit the forward and then bounced off of him into the boards.

The forward’s force/hit clearly caused him to do the header into the boards.

If you see a players back you CAN'T throw him violently into the boards. If you do this from behind its called CHECKING FROM BEHIND. If you do it from the front or side of the body several feet from the boards its called BOARDING. These hits ARE ILLEGAL are how the majority of serious injuries are caused in hockey. They are not a part of the game as you say.

The forward has 3 options: 1) Skate by the defender to the puck 2) Skate beside the defender and battle to get to the puck using any legal force necessary to establish his position on the puck without boarding, or 3) if he stays behind the defender he needs to check up and ride the defender into the boards and then battle for the puck or rub out the body and let the teammate pick it up. With the new emphasis on avoiding these hits you see this all of the time, especially if you watch the NHL at all. Watch them check up and ride the guy into the boards - not hit em high and destroy him.

I've seen hits like this. I remember getting hit like this when I played. Funny thing is the hits that hurt the most were the ones where you were road into the boards and then crushed by the attacking player as opposed to being "hit". Being driven instead of violently thrown, if you will. Same with checks along the boards. Some guys would hit you. Go in for the blow-up, give you that pop and then bounce off. Other guys would ride you out along the boards, basically scraping you along the boards for like 20 ft. That actually hurt worse.

So I guess I am saying if these cementheads want to inflict "pain" on their opponent they should learn to check properly so they can deal out the most punishment. The type of checking seen here can only lead to injury.

The hits between 3 and 10 feet from the boards will always have potential for tragedy. No time for the player being hit to react and change position before contacting the boards.

I don't know of a way to eliminate them, but some of the rule changes in the past couple of years have certainly reduced them.