Oh, please. Moore was dealt with in the first period of Monday's game. That should have been the end of it.
The Vancouver police and B.C. justice system should avoid embarrassing themselves and stay out of this.
Well, the Canucks will do what they do. But, in this case, an assault charge would certainly put thugs like Bertuzzi on notice that sucker-punching-cheap-shots might get the offender time off to know what "hit from behind" really meant.
Moore should have been suspended for ten games for injuring Naslund. In a case like that, the NHL has to send a very harsh message to teams and players -- otherwise, sending an inferior player on the ice in a lopsided game specifically to injure an opposing team's star player will become part of a team's strategy in the NHL.
If you think that's such a stretch, I'll point out that this was exactly what happened a couple of years ago when Scott Niedermayer of the New Jersey Devils (one of the best defensemen in the league) was laid out in a game by Toronto's Tie Domi -- whose annual challenge is to see if his point total will ever exceed his chromosome count.
I'll also point out that you can't get law enforcement involved in these situations because of the inherent bias involved. I've already heard several idiotic comments from Vancouver police officials laying the groundwork to explain why this situation is different than the one involving Marty McSorley a few years ago ("Well, the major difference is that McSorley used a weapon in his attack on Donald Brashear . . .")
What these @ssholes are doing is glossing over the REAL difference (in their minds) between the two incidents -- McSorley played for the opposing team, while Bertuzzi plays for Vancouver.