I dunno, I'm usually one of the biggest homers on the site for the home team, but I think the NHL reasoning makes sense, and I get some of what CGY12 is saying. Maybe I don't think we're going to win all the time the way some fans do, but I generally don't call out players, or ask for anyone to be traded (Bouwmeester and Tanguay v2 being exceptions), and I wasn't even mad at Wideman for his play before this.
Yet I can see this. Even if Wideman is woosy and frustrated, he shouldn't be blindly lashing out. At player or ref/linesman. It doesn't look like just a simple collision. He looks like he wants to hit the guy. And even if he didn't realize it was a linesman, it would still be bad if he just cross checked an opponent from behind.
Too me it really does look like he had a brain fart moment because he was on the receiving end of a bad play. I know this won't be a popular opinion, and I'm not saying it's right either, but I generally wear the red glasses, so if I can see it this way, you gotta understand how most of the league can see it this way or worse.
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