[Major Matt Mason]

There are people that claim that Petgrave and Johnson had collided, which caused the skate to come up, but there is an angle that clearly shows that the only contact was the skate to the throat - there was no contact that would have caused Petgrave's leg to fly up like that. I'm not surprised he wasn't charged, but he definitely should be facing a civil suit (and banned from professional hockey entirely).

[rlmorel]

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.

[rlmorel]

I wholly agree. This below is an example of a player's skate coming up high as the result of a collision:

If Neely's skate had injured Ulf Samuelson (or someone else) there would have been no question it was an accident. But what that player did...nope. It looked intentional to me.