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Originally Posted by Weitz
If what you are saying is true, why has no one else said anything about it?
No one has reported anything close to what you're saying through this whole thing.
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Paul Stewart was saying the same things.
In short, for Rule 40 (abuse of officials) to apply, the game misconduct penalty must have been called. Since it was not, the league is not bound by its mandatory punishments.
Rule 28 (supplemental discipline) explicitly says that it comes into effect for any offence, whether or not it was called on the ice. So the league has the ability to say that Wideman's actions constitute deliberate abuse of an official, and can suspend him under this rule. However, it could suspend him one game, ten, twenty or fine him $35, because this rule offers no set minimums.