1.   Blake tried to swoop in at the end with a hip check, but Fitzgerald got the shot off first.

2.   Aleksei Zhitnik, the Buffalo defenseman, dumped Bondra with a hip check.

3.   Aleksei Zhitnik, a defenseman, exchanged slashes with Mike Keane after Keane barely avoided an open-ice hip check from Zhitnik.

4.   Aleksandr Karpovtsev of the Rangers dumped Jason Smith with a hip check.

5.   Bucyk landed a high percentage of his upending hip checks around the net the Bruins were attacking.

6.   Bureau was felled by a hip check from Blackhawks defenseman Enrico Ciccone.

7.   Conacher met him head on and dropped him with a hip check.

8.   DeClercq gave Gill a hip check, and Gill faked throwing an elbow, provoking an official, Rashan Michel, to give Gill a second technical foul.

9.   Hip checks and deflected shots may break his bones and take his breath away, but none of them will keep him from getting on the plane Friday.

10.   In his first NHL training camp, that gets him a lot more hip checks than handshakes.