Hjalmarsson's Hit on Pominville: Physical, or Dirty?

The NHL recently released the punishment for Niklas Hjalmarsson's hit on Jason Pominville of the Sabres in last night's 4-3 victory for the Blackhawks.  The verdict? A two game suspension, resulting in the Blackhawks D being further depleted against Nashville and Columbus, with the entire second line being out of the games with Campbell's knee injury as well.

While many hockey observers are comparing this hit to past hits resulting in suspensions, i.e. Ovechkin on Campbell and many others, this does not warrant a suspension.  Was the hit hard?  Absolutely.  Does every fan hate to see players go down in this fashion?  Of course.  But does this hit warrant the punishment doled out by the ever-consistent Bettman and Colin Campbell?  No, and here's why.

At least in my opinion, the player performing the body check ("checker") is responsible for hitting a player ("checkee") as long as that player is not purposefully trying to put themselves into a dangerous position.  In this situation, Hjalmarsson coasted in to the hit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTbA1y6vvig), and performed what would have been a perfectly legal hit on Pominville, had Pominville not turned away, exposing himself to the hit in the most dangerous possible way.  I found a brilliant video on YouTube in which the author had slowed down the hit to a frame-by-frame (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJJzFB3eEZ4) in which it is obvious of a couple of things:

1.)  Pominville saw him coming, clearly not a blind-side cheap hit.  Pominville looked over and saw Hjalmarsson not once, but *twice*  and couldn't have NOT seen him coming.  Now, I've never played in the NHL, nor claim to be *remotely* good enough, but in my 15 years of playing and 10 years of playing contact, I have not personally nor ever seen a player see a player coming in for the hit and purposefully turned their back to the checker just before the hit, at least not more than once.  It is taught from the very early days of contact, it's just a bad idea, and cannot be blamed on the checker that the checkee turns their back at the last second.  The first moment of contact is shoulder to shoulder, and as Pominville turns, he catches the shoulder in the back.  Not Hjalmarsson's fault. 

So, not an intentional hit from behind.

2.)  The puck had reached him.  Exactly.  Hjalmarsson could not have timed this hit better, as the puck hits Pominville's stick, Hjalmarsson makes contact. 

So, not interference.

3.)  Now, Hjalmarsson has a reputation in the league of a shot blocker and a tough player.  He has no reputation like Ovechkin's or Avery's...you get the picture.  I'm not saying a player without a rep should get off, but it should play an effect in whether or not a player has repeatedly made blatantly malicious plays, to which this is not.

So, not a reoccurring situation.

4.)  Finally, Hjalmarsson has come out from the beginning saying that he did not mean to hurt Pominville and things of that nature.  While every players says that, Hjalmarsson seemed to really take it to heart and even Buffalo players agreed that Hjalmarsson did not mean to hurt him.

So, not malicious.

To recap, the hit was not intentional, not from behind, not interference, not a reoccurring incident, and not malicious.  So please, somebody explain to me how this warrants a 2-game suspension?