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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The only logical explanation is the explanation that Wideman gave.
If Wideman intended anything, the whole incident would look much different than it did.
For a hockey player holding a stick, raising arms to brace for an impact looks a lot like a cross check, especially when it happens at the last minute.
Wideman cross checking a linesman, just "at random", doesn't make any sense.
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To expand on this, the biggest tell tale sign of what really happened is the immediate reactions of the people on the ice at the time:
Wideman - apologizes and continues to the bench. No aggression evident
Players - no response. No ones acting like Wideman did something intentional.
Refs - no response.
Everyone acting like it was an unintentional collision is pretty good evidence that, it was in fact an unintentional collision.
I'd be very surprised if the league said anything different after they review the incident. The league may very well have completed their review of the incident by the end of the game.