I tend to agree. And I was fully prepared to be impartial.
When it happens fast, I have seen a lot of players whose leg flies into the air like that, but it is caused by a fast, lateral impact to the single lower extremity especially when the direction of the player making impact to the single leg is traveling nearly perpendicularly to the other person as in a cutting across.
When done by a defenseman, it is a beautiful move that brings people to their feet, and causes the opponent’s fans (the honest ones) to say “Damn. That was a good check.”
This was not that.
In slow motion...you see there is no fast, lateral impact. Disgusting.
I defer to you skaters’ knowledge and have a question. Do you think the player tried to slice the neck specifically?