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Originally Posted by Weitz
I don't know how an arbitrator could change it after what we have learned today.
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What have we learned today? That Wideman sent a text that he is as annoyed by this process as many of us are? Understandable, considering it's costing him a half mill.
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Originally Posted by Weitz
Well if Bettman's 2 options were reduce to zero or leave at 20, based on the incident, what do you expect him to do?
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Was that the case? I'm pretty sure he had the power to impose whatever he wanted (as indicated by his threat to increase the suspension being only mitigated by Wideman's clean history
), regardless of what PA requested
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Originally Posted by thymebalm
Is there really no other angle at all of the hit? Maybe one where we can see Wideman's face?
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There seems to be one other angle but it's high up and far away. It looks very accidental in that view. Not sure if the NHL is aware of it's existence though, as they only used the equally inconclusive angle 7 times in their suspension video.
To all the texts talking about Wideman's "differing narrative(s)", all I can say is
. Everything that he has said fits Occam's razor a lot more than the NHL's confused and contradictory "narratives".
This whole thing is just crazy. I can only communicate how I feel about this ridiculous sitution through images:
IMO most of the people convicting Wideman are using giant leaps of logic and one of these:
