Do they not teach hip checks anymore? I wondered this last year, but this year McDavid does this move way more, and that's going to the outside and then leaning into a defender to crash the net. If you're going to lean into somebody like that, I don't know why the defenseman doesn't stick his butt out, hip to hip and (at that speed) launch McDavid into the end boards. It would be clean and legal, and after a couple of times McDavid would know not to rush the net. I'm talking about when he starts to go lateral into the defender.
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