I don\'t think it\'s possible to not score a ton of goals in NHL 2001. The game\'s too easy, but there are some things you can do like play with a crappy team, use the advantage boost on the other team... stuff like that.
As far as hip checks, I seem to remember seing a nice fat ass controller configuration screen that tells you what all of the buttons are. Maybe you could go check that out? If that doesn\'t show hip checks, I\'m thinking it\'s one of the shoulder buttons.