Have only read a few pages of this thread, so perhaps it's been discussed, but the play and the puck are coming down the boards towards the incident; as it happens Wideman's head seems to be facing the Predator player with the puck.
The other thing I see is that his lower body seems to start moving to avoid the linesman a split second before his arms go up, indicating to me that it was more reactionary. I feel like his movements would have looked a bit different had it been fully deliberate.
Lastly, I presume Henderson wasn't hurt beyond having the wind knocked out of him? Henderson looks like a fairly big dude, but IMO if he were really trying to hit him he wouldn't have been able to immediately skate away from a total blindside hit.
I think a few games suspension would be fine, but I think they also should have applied to the Weber and Muzzin videos shown in the first few pages (and other similar incidents), as the officials deserve to be protected from careless accidents.
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