1.   Another former teammate, defenseman Ken Daneyko, is likely to be targeting MacLean for hard checks.

2.   But few, if any, have so unselfishly bought into the program, turning their slap shots in for hard checks in the corner.

3.   Defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky injured his elbow on a hard check by Darryl Sydor late in the third period.

4.   Earlier, Probert had knocked Verbeek down with a hard check.

5.   Four minutes in, he gave defenseman Wade Redden a hard check near the red line.

6.   He had left the ice on a stretcher in the first period after Hatcher flattened him with a hard check to the head.

7.   He bumps goalies and delivers hard checks to skaters, some of them legal.

8.   He made another hard check on Marcus Ragnarsson along the boards.

9.   He generated five shots, but his biggest play came on a hard check of Rob Dimaio.

10.   It started when Trent McCleary, an Ottawa rookie, hit Samuelsson with a hard check after Samuelsson had passed the puck, but kept his head down.