I think the punishment is a little steep, but at the end of the day, Wideman did this to himself IMO. I don't for one second believe the guy had no other options or was completely out of his mind.
And as for the stalling, I don't actually mind it from a discipline perspective. If it was taking the league this long to deal up an appeal, but the player in question was named Alex Burrows and he was disputing a suspension for a head shot to Johnny Gaudreau, we'd all be perfectly fine with Bettman taking his sweet time and letting Alex and the Nucks sweat.
The fact that many on here think the punishment on this case was unjust, and even think that the act its self wasn't that bad isn't relevant to "how long the appeal process takes" issue. As long as the NHL "drags it's feet" so to speak on other serious infractions (and this one is being deemed as such given it got 20 games) I have no issue with it, cause more often than not the player protesting his suspension likely did something pretty crappy and should be made to wait.
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