In hockey there's a strategy for this you both grab each other and slide in at the same time to avoid getting killed on the boards. When Gretzky played no other

In hockey there's a strategy for this you both grab each other and slide in at the same time to avoid getting killed on the boards. When Gretzky played no other player could hit him because they didn't have the instigator rule, so if you clobbered him on the boards the biggest goons on his team would take your head off so the result was nobody touched Gretzky until late in his career when they put in that stupid rule. Hockey also has the problem of players wearing body armor now so hits are even worse than what they used to be.