I'll be honest, after watching the video my initially reaction was that it looked really bad. It looked very much intentional, whether he was dazed or not.
The only thing that made me think it wasn't intentional is it's hard to fathom that a player would intentionally skate over to a linesman and lay him out from behind with a cross-check, especially a player with no history of crossing the line in even a remotely similar manner.
Like others said though, if this was a player on another team that I was only vaguely familiar with it would be hard to watch that video and come to the conclusion it was entirely accidental
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