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Originally Posted by dissentowner
It is amazing how this statement comes purely because this is a Calgary Flame hockey player. I guarantee if Wideman had been a Canuck instead of a Flame, most of the posts like the one I quoted would be commending the NHL on a job well done. You can say different but it is rather obvious.
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Where do you get that idea?
I don't think that Yanek Weber hit (on the same linesman) would be worth 20 games either.
This is not wearing Flames coloured glasses. If I really believed Wideman deliberately attacked an official I'd want the book thrown at him. It simply wasn't the case though. Its really bad optics from one camera angle that have incriminated him.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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