[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

At this point, his weight is all up ice and he still has yet to switch to his down ice edges, execute the check, and drive through the player

Puck is in, play is dead

He can keep on his up ice edges but decides not to

Sure and in that 1/10 of a second between that still frame and contact he could have probably done something slightly different. I suspect by that point some form of body contact was inevitable. My point was only that the decision to try to prevent the goal with a body check makes sense to me.