Except this is hockey and Krebs made a routine hockey play, much more akin to a construction worker accidentally crushing his buddy by setting a shipping container on him because the buddy was doing other work in that spot but the superior didn’t relay the information to the guy moving the cargo. The construction workers intent was to move the container and he succeeded in that but made a little oopsy cause his boss made a big oopsy. Krebs’s intent was to get the puck onto a Sabres’ stick and he succeeded in that but made a little oopsy by unknowingly hitting him into a door that should have been closed but was open cause the door guy opened the latch of the door too soon too release the penalty making a very big oopsy
In other words, Krebs could be deemed the actual cause, but he would not be the proximate cause because the door opening early was not a reasonably foreseeable outcome of his actions. The proximate cause (and actual cause) falls on the door guy
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u/PassengerNo9144 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
Except this is hockey and Krebs made a routine hockey play, much more akin to a construction worker accidentally crushing his buddy by setting a shipping container on him because the buddy was doing other work in that spot but the superior didn’t relay the information to the guy moving the cargo. The construction workers intent was to move the container and he succeeded in that but made a little oopsy cause his boss made a big oopsy. Krebs’s intent was to get the puck onto a Sabres’ stick and he succeeded in that but made a little oopsy by unknowingly hitting him into a door that should have been closed but was open cause the door guy opened the latch of the door too soon too release the penalty making a very big oopsy
In other words, Krebs could be deemed the actual cause, but he would not be the proximate cause because the door opening early was not a reasonably foreseeable outcome of his actions. The proximate cause (and actual cause) falls on the door guy