Wideman will get 10 games.
He was back on the ice 2:05 later, played the rest of the game, and the Flames did not have him undergo concussion protocols. That pretty much completely undermines any "bell rung" argument.
If you want to claim that he was, in fact, dazed as a result of the Salomaki hit to the point that he collided with an official he was unable to notice, then you're declaring the Flames were hugely negligent in letting him play the rest of the game, and that our medical and coaching staff should be, at the very least reprimanded and investigated, if not outright terminated.
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