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Originally Posted by djsFlames

I'm just saying if they both willingly got involved in an exchange (for whatever reason) to the point where they physically confronted each other and one happened to be much stronger than the other and one guy gets hurt, then he lost a fight instigated probably by accusations and likely furthered by heavy drinking. But he should suck it up, he got involved in the first place, and paid the price for it. I don't know the exact details of the situation, this is just what it sounds like to me from these quotes.

Then let's say a person casually walking by the bar on a midnight stroll gets suddenly attacked by the accused party and sustains serious injuries, then to me that's a whole different matter. That sounds like assault. This sounds like two drunk idiots confronting each other and one making a dumb mistake provoking the other to act out.

I'm going by my own terms here, I'm no lawyer. But this just sounds like a classic case of intoxicated stupidity that got a bit ugly over a perpetrator viciously assaulting a victim. It's not something that sticks out as heinous because it literally happens all the time, this just happened to involve a professional hockey player who's physically going to have the upper hand, but the 'victim' was ignorant enough to disregard it.

Edit: Upon further reading it appears it was more a freak incident that was reactionary. That is if there actually was no exchange between the parties before hits were being thrown. But if some random person strikes you in the face, you bet your first instinct is going to be to protect yourself. It's just not clear if this Eyma guy was the one to hit him in the eye or if it was someone else..

This is why I I questioned your first post. In this case he might be responsible.