Penguins’ Brooks Orpik launches Daniel Paille with massive hit (Video)

You know what I like about this hit? Daniel Paille didn't lay there and cry like a baby, but got right back up and kept playing. Nice check by Brooks Orpik though.

Best part, Paille gets up, goes back into the play and gets the puck, a soccer player would have laid there like he'd been shot

That is the shortest 25ft I've ever seen.

Now that is sportsmanship. No whining, no fighting. Kudos.

"ORPIKED"

NIce hit .. nice getting up afterwards w/o a ghetto attitude !! But 25', really ??

25ft? The width of the playing surface is only 44ft. He would have to have been launched over the boards at 25ft. Sensationalist sports announcer. Must be related to sensationalist Yahoo! headline creators.

if that was a soccar player he would act like he was just killed

That is what seperates the true sports players from players who are just there for the money. Outstanding Paille!!!!!!

Awesome recovery. Airborne to reverse skating on one foot.

Man that was one hell of a hit

Announcer: "He launched him 25 feet! Exaggeration like a politician.

Not quite 25 feet, guys. Still, nice shot Brooksy!! THAT is how you deal with the "Big Bad Broons."

Btw, members of the NBA. Did you notice what Paille did? That's right...he just got up and resumed skating. No flopping on the ice like a dead fish....no whining to the referee.....and no going back up to Orpik and running his mouth.

He knew he was going to be posterized after that hit, but he got right back up annd continued playing, as if nothing happened. How about that for safe equipment?

25 feet? Try 9 or 10.

Paille almost cracks a smile like, "Wow, that was fun [even though it wasn't supposed to be]!!"

It was a clean hit that's why no retro was sought. We had a decade of nastiness in the 90's where a lot of great players were ruined.

Lay off the announcer I thought it was pretty obvious by the tone of his voice he was just excited and exaggerating on purpose. I reallllly doubt the man thought it was a true 25 feet lol.

The most spectacular (and perhaps, too, the hardest) hits in all of contact team sport are in ice hockey. This is a perfect example of the spectacular.

Absurdly huge but clean hit, launches the dude about eight feet before he even hits the ice, the guy getting hit just gets right back up and keeps playing, and nobody else on the ice took offense. That, my friends, is why hockey players are the best sports players around.