Look, I'm not saying it wasn't a clean hit, it was. You can hit a person cleanly with the intent to injure, which is what I see when I watch the replay. We probably aren't going to agree on this, but he could have cleaned his clock without going for the injury. I understand that he's under no obligation to not hurt him, but it's still a dick thing to do in my book.
As for not coming up, look at the clip at about the 1:08 mark, there is a spot there where Sutton is standing up; his skates are a foot off the ice and Leopold is still in mid-air.
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