If you watch in slo-mo you can see Hay is in front of Mangone, and Mangone's head actually hits Hay's butt, Hay shows no upper body movement to demonstrate that he was intentionally going in for a hit. Even after the hit Hay went to the boards to follow the puck.
It certainly didn't help that the Saginaw's announcers went on and on about how nasty it was, that he had intent to injury, it was a blind sided hit and dirty. Saginaw's announcers were out of line in my opinion to carry on the way they did and should be reprepended for it. He is a minor.
I get Hay is a tough player but all I hear about the kid off ice is that he is a great kid, at school, OHL academic award, polite and billet family says he is a all round great kid. Yes he take penalties but many of those are soft. To paint him as monster on the ice as the announcer did is uncalled for.
Especially when a few games prior Othmann was pushed into the boards layer out flat by Schulting and no suspension. WTF.
To indefinitely penalize a kid isn't right and IMO Saginaw's announcer's played it up to be much more and why Hay will suffer an extended suspension because of their words.
