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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
When he was talking to his experts after the fact, to get the concussion diagnosis, this was what he said:
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Dr. Kutcher testified that he based his opinion, in part, on the fact that Mr. Wideman told him that he "vaguely remembers skating to the bench. He remembers some incident occurring, but he does not recall who he hit [or] how he hit the individual. "
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That's an extremely different narrative than he accidentally ran into someone after looking up. I mean, either he lied to his doctor to get a favourable diagnosis, which is shady as ####. Or he lied about remembering the event to give himself a favourable narrative. Either way, he deserves the 20 game ban as far as I'm concerned... at least. |
I don't think him saying: "I was out of it and don't really know what happened there" is mutually exclusive from the stance of "it was an accident". To me, those two ideas are in line with each other and make sense. The narrative reads "I was a bit out of it, and I think I ran into someone by accident on my way to the bench".
I guess I'm just heavily influenced by the fact that I was at the game, and saw it happen live. Many people were sort of looking around saying "what happened?" and then the game went on as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. The first time I heard that the hit might have been an issue was when I was reading twitter the next morning at breakfast. As such, I'm totally on Wideman's side that it was simply an accident and this was blown way out of proportion by the media.