In my opinion, the hit was most likely a penalty and had a completely unfortunate result. I think that Hall should have let up when he realized that Larsson wasn't aware he was there. I dont want hockey to turn into a non-contact sport, but if you want any contact, you will have to accept a certain amount of collateral damage. I think this hit falls into that category.
If Hall had more respect for his brotherhood, he would have pulled up. He didn't and deserved a penalty for it. If he got a game suspension for it, I would not argue.
Is it possible to write respect for other players in a vulnerable position into the rules? Maybe there could be a committee that decide if he should have let up on the hit? Like some sort of a morality judgement from a team of ex players, a jury of sorts. I do think it is possible to have such a committee and I think that it might result in better player safety.
Soo... has Hall been arrested yet? I haven't been paying attention to this incident, but I'm pretty sure that Van PD should have a warrant out or something by now...
/S
~ I'm not a sociopath, it's just that my magnetic personality keeps throwing off my moral compass.~
Victoria DH
C(3): Athanasiou, Sissons, Zibanejad
LW(3): Lehkonen, Burakovsky, Hymen
RW(3): Bjorkstrand, Smith, Palmieri
F(3): Stepan (C), Bjork (LW), Poehling (C)
D(6): Carlson, Heiskanen, Bogosian, Edler, Hakanpaa, Fleury
G(1): Talbot, Sorokin, Varlamov
Bench: Parise (LW), Motte (C), Richardson (C), Hagg (D)
IR: Wood, Henrique, Johnson, Dvorak
Prospects: (F) Barre-Boulet, Khovanov, Beckman, Greig, N. Robertson, Fagemo, Tuomalaa, (D) Ceulemans, Hughes, Schneider, Zboril
clean hit, unfortunate outcome.
carey price however...
/S
~ I'm not a sociopath, it's just that my magnetic personality keeps throwing off my moral compass.~
Victoria DH
C(3): Athanasiou, Sissons, Zibanejad
LW(3): Lehkonen, Burakovsky, Hymen
RW(3): Bjorkstrand, Smith, Palmieri
F(3): Stepan (C), Bjork (LW), Poehling (C)
D(6): Carlson, Heiskanen, Bogosian, Edler, Hakanpaa, Fleury
G(1): Talbot, Sorokin, Varlamov
Bench: Parise (LW), Motte (C), Richardson (C), Hagg (D)
IR: Wood, Henrique, Johnson, Dvorak
Prospects: (F) Barre-Boulet, Khovanov, Beckman, Greig, N. Robertson, Fagemo, Tuomalaa, (D) Ceulemans, Hughes, Schneider, Zboril