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Luca Sbisa was blanched white, choking on his words, still carrying heavy emotion by the time the game had ended.

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What he wanted to know most, however, was how his friend and teammate, Philip Larsen, was doing.

Early reports were encouraging. He was awake, responding and moving his limbs.

“(After the hit), he wasn’t moving. I’ve never seen anyone like that on the ice,” Sbisa said. “I don’t even know how he’s doing.

“How is he doing?

“It was just scary. To be honest, I couldn’t really focus the rest of the period.”

The replays from Hall-on-Larsen will be pored over, again and again. There will be those who will call it clean, and through the chest. They will say things like Hall let up, and he may have, and Larsen should have kept his head up, and there’s no question he lost track of Hall, or never saw him.

And there will be those who will call for a suspension, one for multiple games for a repeat offender.