PITTSBURGH Brooks Orpik hit Jonathan Toews on Sunday night, and a lot of stuff happened because of it.For starters, Toews left the game. He's day-to-day with a shoulder injury obvious to anyone with Nelson Agholor Jersey a pair of eyes (and acce s to the .GIF of him grabbing his arm and screaming the F-word on his way to the dre sing room.)Then, whether through coincidence or not, the Toews-le s Chicago Blackhawks kicked their game into overdrive and against Orpik's Pittsburgh Penguins for the remaining two periods or so; Pittsburgh wound up winning 4-1, despite taking just 25 unblocked even-strength shot attempts to Chicago's 47.MORE: From about the midpoint of the second period, specifically, Chicago won the Fenwick battle 32-10. Good as the Penguins were in the first period, they were lucky to win. Chicago, meanwhile, is 4-5-1 in its last 10 and has dropped three straight on the road by a combined score of 12-4."I thought we had good enough chances to win the game, but at the same time, it's just a couple minutes every game that we make some huge mistakes," Chicago defenseman Niklas Hjalmar son said. "It just seems like they score every time on those Reggie White Jersey opportunities we give them."In the longview, Orpik increased the odds that the Toronto Maple Leafs go after him when he hits free agency this summer. That's largely speculation; the Leafs just seem primed to spend a ton of money on a defenseman who, statistical decline and advanced age aside, can still "play hard" or whatever.Most obviously, though, Orpik's hit triggered hockey's latest, most obnoxious round of Twitter-based disciplinary review, resultant outrage, then outrage to the outrage. It's exhausting and it will never, ever stop. Isn't the internet horrible? (The internet is horrible.)For posterity's sake, the hit was clean enough. Orpik didn't leave his feet to make it. He didn't target Toews' head. He didn't hit his head first. Toews didn't do himself any favors after releasing the puck, though the amount of time that elapsed between that and the hit doesn't reflect all that well on Orpik. Neither does the fact that he committed to hitting Toews Wes Hopkins Jersey at some point during Pittsburgh's game against Columbus on Saturday. All in all, though, like Orpik said, it's a hit that happens 10 times a game.The result isn't always the same, though, and neither are the principles: Toews is one of the faces of the game, and Orpik is always going to be despised by a large subset of Boston Bruins fans on-ice a sault of him in December. These are high-profile players, and because of that, the Twitter back-and-forth during the game over what was, at most, a borderline hit was out of control.There's not much to be done about it, or any real insight to glean it's just predictable and tiring and predictably tiring.Adding gasoline to the fire, as he is paid to do, was NBC Sports' Mike Milbury; he called back to Orpik's refusal to fight Thornton for an ultimately clean hit on Loui Erik son a few minutes before . Milbury, like a lot of people but still quite weirdly, thinks Nigel Bradham Jersey Orpik should fight after this sort of thing."You have a guy who operates on a predatory level, that's Brooks Orpik, but he refuses to fight. He refuses to face the music when it comes to that, and the physicality. He makes a conscious choice. He's allowed to do that in this game; you don't have to fight. You can turtle. We've seen that there's a history of what happens to Brooks Orpik when somebody challenges him, and that's what happened in Boston," Milbury said.No player, on either team, who was asked about the hit felt half as strongly. Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said he thought it was clean as it happened, then, when asked about Milbury's analysis-type-thing, dropped the equivalent of \_()_/: "I don't have knowledge of Mr. Milbury's comments. I can't imagine what they would be. So."Paul Bi sonnette was a little more direct.Knowing Mike Milbury has a job talking hockey makes me feel good about life after I'm done playing. Guy's a zero. Paul Bi sonnette (@BizNasty2point0) Former NHL player Brendan Witt ripped Milbury, too, with a funny () metaphor involving a vacuum, which, to be safe, we will not embed here.Fine. It was good to see those two tough, tough dudes who have been in more than a few fights clown Milbury. It was also a nice, Malik Jackson Jersey late, and ultimately irrelevant twist on a common theme hit, outrage, repeat that's never going to stop popping up. And for all that happened after Orpik-on-Toews, it's not going to end that cycle. So it goes.