I don’t really follow the NHL, but this is a sad situation all around. First the death of a player during a game is horrible and the family and his teammates having to live with that. Now, the play happened so fast as it always does in the game of hockey so I have no idea if the players skate came up on purpose or not. I would hope that it would be that the player did not do it deliberately.
Unfortunately, since the play did move so fast and it is somewhat difficult to determine for sure what happened 100% this horrible event has to be brought out into the forefront again. I understand that the facts need to be clarified on this, but for the family and his teammates it is going to be extremely hard to deal with . Not to mention the player that was charged, especially if it was not a deliberate action on his part.