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Originally Posted by sempuki
Here's what happened: he got his bell rung and wasn't seeing/thinking straight -- he thought the linesman was a Pred and gave him a shove. He played the rest of the game because players get concussed all the time and don't take themselves out of the game.
In my opinion concussion protocol should not be voluntary regardless. It probably will become this way after the concussion law suits are settled...
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I tend to agree with most of your take on the hit, but I also have a problem with setting much blame on concussion protocol as it pertains to this particular incident.
The hit Wideman sustained was right at the end of the play, and it is reasonable to think that virtually everyone missed seeing it. If no one on the bench saw it, then I don't think it is at all unreasonable that they did not implement any concussion protocol. It is too much to expect that players are going to do the responsible thing here, or even that they will be in the right frame of mind after such incidents to conduct an adequate self assessment.
So, all that to say, it is entirely understandable why Wideman and the Flames do not believe that he sustained a concussion, and also why there was nothing done about it at the time it occurred.