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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
I disagree that Wideman had intent. I view it as he saw him last second and the shove was reactionary and accidental. The same as how Joseph didn't intend to trip and hit the ref causing him to fall.
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These aren't even remotely comparable. If not the collision with Henderson itself, then the extension of Wideman's arms to contact the linesman arguably is deliberate. The point being that a cogent case can be maade to show at least part of Wideman's actions as intentional. The same cannot at all be said about Curtis Joseph, who very clearly did not deliberately fall into the official.