I think 49 times out of 50, that hit ends up in a guy knocked off of his skates, with no injury, simply due to a slight deflection of the force
It’s just the physics of it. The D sees a guy coming, F tries to make the hit, D tries to evade, and he still makes the hit, but the force imparted is a fraction of the force of what a direct hit would be.
A slight move sees the player receiving the check take a part of the force, and the checking player carrying a good amount of momentum past
This is a pretty rare outcome
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