I had to watch this over and over, the brief clip in this thread does not tell the whole story.
The Video:
-Wideman gets hit hard into the boards
-He's clearly woozy as he heads to the bench and does a sort of hit his stick on the ice to make sure they know he's coming to the bench, its an odd way he does it though
-As soon as he gets to the linesman, he suddenly reacts and while it is not a purely defensive move, it also appears to be reacting out of surprise or urgency
-On the bench he looks out of it for a while
The Refs:
-Choose not to issue a penalty
The Circumstances:
-Unless something happened in the game where Wideman had a reason to be angry with the officials, it doesn't make any sense that he would have done this intentionally
-Wideman is not one with a reputation of anything like this.
The Result:
Who knows. Its hard to reconcile what happened.
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