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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Maybe it's just me (hard to tell from the angles showed since you don't see his face) but it looks like Vermette was trying to say something to the official and tapped him to get his attention when he was being ignored.
Not trying to excuse it, but I makes more sense to me than waiting a couple seconds and then randomly slashing the back of the refs thigh out of nowhere.
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Originally Posted by Weitz
I agree that is my take of the situation as well.
But yah no excuse. Will likely get the 10 games and accept it.
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At first it looked vicious but after looking at it a couple times, it appears that's exactly what he was doing. Linesman turned and Vermette wanted to give him an earful, reaches to tap ref to get his attention and taps him too hard.
But with all the earlier faceoff squabbles with that safe red and Vermette throughout the game, the linesman wasn't messing around and tossed him for the contact.