If you take the emotion out of things, step back and watch the hit again, and try to ignore the results (broken face, concussion and leaking blood like a water main break) then there is only one logical conclusion that takes all "opinions" out of the equation and leaves the only determination that one can come to.
It was a clean hockey hit, with unfortunate consequences.
There should not even have been a penalty assessed in fact, but I understand how that happened in the heat of the moment.
there will be no suspension, nor should there be, as that would be a defacto change in the rules of the game. People forget that hockey is a violent and dangerous game at times but that's a huge part of its beauty as well. Open ice hits like that are becoming rarer and rarer unfortunately, but that doesnt mean they are not an integral part of the fabric of what happens on the ice.
Hope Eller is OK and makes a speedy recovery, and I still think that the Habs win the series....but all of that stuff has nothing to do with a clean, hard and very nice hockey play by Gryba.
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