My heart wants to tell me it was a accident.
I think he was just pissed off, staring at the ice in a bad mood on the way back to the bench and he catches a body out of the corner of his eye at the last second. Goes for the pissed off shove down and then realize it was a ref. You see that sort of shove down all the time with player on player.
It wasn't someone who even had a say in calling a penalty on the hit so pre meditated intent makes no sense and Wideman is not in the same category of players who might intentionally do something stupid.
Confusing on all accounts but I believe he gets 3 games as the NHL stands up for the refs and makes it clear that accidental or not, you need to be in control (similar to a high sticking infraction). If something leaks that he has a history with this ref then it gets upped to 15 games +
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