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As expected.

I assume they will use whatever the medical evidence they claim to have in combination with the Weber incident which is directly comparable.

Not in the collision itself, which is the linesman's fault, but Weber's reaction of jumping into him before contact and applying force with both arms. The factor which makes Wideman's worse is Wideman has two hands on his stick making it a violent cross check, while Weber was all arms. I suspect they will claim it's the natural reaction to an unexpected object in one's path. Kerry Fraser also analyzed the play and showed how the linesman cut off Wideman's path to the door in the moments leading up to the collision - not the linesman's fault either, with his back to Wideman, but perhaps a small mitigating factor.