Throats have been cut during hockey games before, the blades are extremely sharp and crap happens on the ice.
Always when a player is down, never when a player is upright
yes someone was nigtputting
I don't know squat about ice skating or playing hockey, let alone maneuvering on the ice at those speeds so I'm going to refrain from speculating.
I do suspect that Matt Petgrave, the player who killed Johnson and is THE MOST penalized skater in the league, will never play hockey again.
Also interesting to note that Petgrave's name is almost never mentioned in the many articles about this story.
Watch the gif above. It sure as hell looks like thr guy intentionally lifted his leg and targeted the guy…
I've watched a lot of Hockey, although I'll concede, many have watched more than me. But, I've never seen anyone have their skate up that high. I mean, that was easily 5 feet above the bottom of his foot. I'm not saying he was aiming to slash Johnson's neck, I'm not even sure he saw him, but allowing your skate to go up that high, when you're still in control is just reckless.
extreme recklessness is how Petgrave played all the time. Disregard for rules, routinely penalized for it.
Petgrave loves recklessness more than he loves the actual sport.
If he loved the sport he would have taught himself control of his body at some point during his many years of practice, to do the job and not just check a guy then allow his leg to flail about like a new person at it who would have less clue of what their limbs were doing as they checked and fell for the first time.