Habs pick Connor Crisp floors Hurricanes prospect Sergey Tolchinsky with open-ice check (VIDEO)

Connor Crisp might have just made a lot of OHL defenceman jealous.

Crisp is a good half-foot taller and 60 pounds heavier than Carolina Hurricanes prospect Sergey Tolchinsky, the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds' diminutive dervish, so the impact is not the thing. It's the fact that Crisp, the Sudbury Wolves wing whom the Montreal Canadiens took in the third round of the NHL draft, made such square contact on the Sault Ste. Marie star during the final seconds of overtime in an OHL game on Wednesday.

Two words for that: text book.

Crisp is 6-foot-4 and 225 pounds and Tolchinsky is listed at 5-9, 165, but a smaller player can often peel away to avoid taking the full force of a check. That didn't happen. Lest one worry, Crisp did engage with players his own size. He outworked Edmonton Oilers first-rounder Darnell Nurse and shook free of the 6-5 defenceman to score an overtime-forcing goal in the third period on 'Hounds goalie Matt Murray, who is also 6-5.

That was why the game went into extra time. Crisp also scored the shootout winner to give the Wolves a 3-2 decision over a team that it lost to 10-3 in its season opener in September.

Neate Sager is a writer for Yahoo! Canada Sports. Follow him on Twitter @neatebuzzthenet. Please address any questions, comments or concerns to btnblog@yahoo.ca (video: Shaw TV, Sportsnet).