"It's the middle of summer," you say, "What the fruck are you doing watching hockey? You should be breaking down Josh Howard's recent arrest or preparing for your fantasy football draft!"
Whatever. Unlike the NFL Network, NBA TV and the, um, MLB Channel, the NHL Network almost exclusively replays games from past seasons to satisfy your frozen nostalgia. They are currently using the sun-drenched summer months to replay every game from the 2007 and 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs in order. In the course of a week, you get to relive an entire series, and in doing so, you get reminded of certain highlights that you may have forgotten about.
Enter Calgary Flames defenseman Cory Sarich.
I was watching a little of Calgary - San Jose game 3 from the first round of this season's playoffs, and damn near choked on my HamDog when I saw this:
The Flames were down 3-0 to the Sharks at the time of this hit, but went on to win 4-3. Sarich's obliteration of Marleau completely turned the game around.
Incredibly, that annihilation wasn't even Sarich's best hit of his career. A little more YouTube trolling turned up what may be the best hit I've ever seen by any hockey-playin' fool.
And if you title your video "This Guy Got Knocked the F*** Out," you deserve some Toooasty love:
Just a little stick and puck to break the ManRam, Favre, Artest menage-a-trois.
*Posting YouTube clips is normally the biggest give-up of a posting ever, but fuck it. However, in successive poooasts I've written about hot dogs and aped YouTube clips. I am placing myself on double secret probation.
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Oh man, what a hit! I remember, we were watchin' that game at the Landing. I think the Sharks scored twice while you were on the way there... Then the hit happened and the Flames started chipping away at the lead. Seriously, an amazing game.
HOW-EVAH... not the best hit of last season's playoffs. At the close of regulation in the 5-OT marathon in Dallas against San Jose, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2iWV6_v4h4
Certainly the biggest hit I've seen in person... and it happened right in front of us. Devastatin'.
Also: the hoser named "matty" who posted the YouTube paean to Cory Sarich in his Junior days is not the same Matty who posts here.
That am all.
The 2 hits are very comparable. Both destroyed a valuable member of the Sharks. Both came at times when their teams really needed a lift. And both hits set a tone that eventually allowed their teams to win their games.
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