It was a weird chain of events right from the start being dazed after the hit from NSH. Taking 4 foggy strides. The the ref skating backwards into Wideman not aware of Wideman's location and then getting corked by Wideman.
Wideman appeared to not see the linesman until he was a stride away but then when finally sees him. As we all saw he doesn't just collide with the ref he defended the collision by blasting the ref in the back. It was a weird reaction.
What was even stranger was the trainer who looked like he saw Wideman get off the ice and that he was a hit woozy. But did nothing to take him down the hallway. I thought that was odd and that the trainer wasn't on top of things as well as he could have been.
I thought 10 games if they went by that it was an accident of events but Wideman reacted too agressive that he could have just braced himself and held up on the cross check.
But that is unfair to say because you can't get into a players head.
What was unfair is that the NHL said in the statement Wideman deliberately hit the official.
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