Quote Originally Posted by Spank_Me_Hard View Post
In fact, one of the "factors" that they weigh is if they consider the other player "helpless" when they got hit.

In this case, the league actually said that before he made the pass that he took a moment to look around him and see where the other players were. He *should* have known, and as such was not "helpless".

I think that the hit was largely of Booth's own doing being careless.

I hope to gawd that Booth is okay and will recover soon, but yeah...as strong and fast as players are these days, all it takes is that extra half-second of admiring your pass and you can get wrecked.

Or skating the puck across the blueline with your head down; just ask Eric Lindros.