IT WASN'T 17 goals from his three main forwards that most impressed Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson in the club's landslide win over Collingwood on Saturday.

Nor was it Sam Mitchell's 39 touches, Brad Sewell's 15 contested possessions or the 42 hit-outs from by Robert Campbell and Simon Taylor that won his exclusive praises.

What had him most pleased was the balanced contribution from his side as it went about destroying the Magpies by 65 points, courtesy of a 10-goal final term.

"The most satisfaction any coach has is when you have 22 contributors," Clarkson said after the match.

"We don't necessarily care who kicks the goals, as long as the goals are kicked. We had guys who played very important roles for us in the back half, and through the middle of the ground.

"And then you get the icing on the cake when you're able to finish as well as we did today. If we've got 22 guys playing their role, then we're really pleased as a football club."

Clarkson also praised the work of the club's fitness staff, who he believes were instrumental in getting the players prepared for Saturday's match following a "five-and-a half-day break".

"We knew it was a great challenge for our side," he said. "Collingwood played really well against Essendon on Anzac Day, and they had a couple of extra days break on us so we had to make sure we switched our attention to the Pies pretty quickly.

"[Fitness coaches] Andrew Russell and Peter Burge did a first-class job looking after their conditioning over the course of the week.

"For us to be able to run the game out as well as we did in the second half was a great credit to those two guys who prepare our players so well."

After the Hawks hit the front early in the first term and moved to a 22-point lead, they didn't allow the Pies within 21 points. But Clarkson said the result wasn't always shaping up as sure for his side.

"It might have seemed [we always had their measure] to you guys watching but it certainly didn't feel that way in the coach's box," he said.

"We always had a buffer of two to three goals across the bulk of the game, but it just felt like we couldn't nail them as early as we would have liked.

"They're a terrific side, Collingwood, and they're very well coached and disciplined, so to even think we were going to get the four points today was going to be a tremendous bonus, let alone to win as convincingly as we did in the end.

"The preparation of the guys and their professionalism in getting the guys ready for this contest with such a short break was pivotal to our win."

Clarkson said vice-captain Luke Hodge could miss a few weeks after injuring his hamstring in the third term, meaning the tough midfielder won't play for Victoria in the Hall of Fame Tribute Match next Saturday night.

"He was unable to participate further in the game, and he'll have that scanned throughout the course of the week," he said.

"I dare say if it's a normal type of hamstring, and I don't think Hodge has done a hamstring before, that it's a two to three-week injury.

"But we'll have to wait and see what the scan unveils."

He also said while Chance Bateman will not play for the Dream Team following a hand injury that kept him out of the clash with Collingwood, the club will support Lance 'Buddy' Franklin's desire to play.

"If [Franklin] is medically okay to play, we'll encourage our guys to play," he said.

"Chance probably won't, he was a late withdrawal today with a cracked bone in his hand, so we just didn't want to run the risk of that becoming displaced.

"He'll probably miss another one or two games."