http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/did-wide...purpose~796476
This is still the best analysis of the incident IMO. If the other angle that Button shows here had been the one that was all over social media, it would've been a non story. The optics of the first angle (from behind) and the second angle (from the front) are very different.
But as is the information age, people see one little clip and think they have all the information they need to make a sound judgement on the overall situation, like this classifies as one of the worst attacks on an official in NHL history. I'm just disappointed that the NHL felt they had to make an example of Wideman because the bad clip was the one that went viral.
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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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