Watch: Methot levels Malkin with textbook hip check

Marc Methot can lay the body.

That much was clear Thursday, when the Ottawa Senators D-man took Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin off his skates and out of the play with a nasty - but clean - hip check.

The hit was laid near the end of the second period with the game tied at 1-1.

Methot has some previous experience in the hip-check department: