Will Carlo Face Discipline For ‘Blindside Hit’ That Injured Hall

Hall is now listed as week-to-week with an undisclosed injury, and following the game, Blackhawks Luke Richardson was not happy at all.

“He’s probably going to be out for a little bit, just (an) upper-body injury,” Richardson told reporters. “But I think it was unfortunate. We just have to plow through. He was playing really well for us. That’s a blindside hit. That’s a guy coming across the ice, for sure. That’s what the game is trying to get rid of. I know exactly what it is because I used to do it all the time. But now it’s not in the game. So we just hope that there’s not a lot of those there that we see because they’re not great for anybody.”

Let’s make one thing crystal clear: Carlo is one of the cleanest players in the NHL. Some Boston Bruins fans would argue that he’s too clean and doesn’t use his size to take the body enough.

While former Bruins and current Blackhawks winger Nick Foligno knows and respects that, he, too, questioned the hit.

“Former teammate, it’s a hard one to judge, but it just seemed like he didn’t have the puck. And tough, tough position to put him in,” Foligno said. “Didn’t really like the hit, but hopefully, he’s going to be all right. Haven’t really talked to him.”

A text to an NHL Department of Player Safety source on Thursday morning to see if Carlo could be facing supplemental discipline had not been returned as of 11:30 a.m. ET.

Keep in mind that the NDPS has already made their first suspension of this young 2023-24 regular season, suspending Vegas Golden Knights center Brett Howden for his illegal check to the head of Seattle’s Brandon Tanev in the season opener for those teams on Tuesday night.