There are plenty of situations where it's not possible to "easily" go around it.
Suffice to say, you can be 5"8, and hip check someone. The truth is, its made Unstoppable Force and Truculence abilities, and the body checking attribute don't really matter because its safer for me to always load up a hip check, then a regular hit and be caught out of position.
Regardless, I'd argue that we see hip checks maybe once a game in the NHL. Not, as the default defending position when going into a corner for example.
Sadly it's one of those features you wonder who thought it was a good idea to make it be so dominant. It literally gets used in ways that would result in suspensions to players clipping players from behind.
