No need to define charging, I played the game. Wagner stopped striding and coasted into the hit. Not charging, but the game was a shit show by then, so the refs handed out the penalties. But hey, I'll go along with the charging call. Even if it was legit, it was most certainly not suspendable, which is what the other fanbase you seem so intent on letting off the hook is saying.
And by the way, you keep missing our point, a hit can be retaliatory, predatory, and vicious, and still not be illegal, or even considered dirty. They are not mutually exclusive. Case in point, Ference hitting Ott was vicious (just look at it), retaliatory (Ott had been running guys all game), and predatory (he caught him with his head down from the blind side). It was also clean as a whistle.
. . . and Ference answered the bell for it, like he should. As I said, let the players worry about the subjective nonsense.
