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Old 10-08-2018, 08:41 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Mightyfire89 View Post
^^^Yeah, it does read that way, and I’m fine with it. I still don’t think it’s possible that Wideman was in his right mind when that happened. I believe he was concussed and still all messed up from the hit he’d taken a few moments earlier. How does a guy with 800ish games in the nhl, who had almost no history of violent incidents suddenly decide to do something like that to a linesman?
Still makes zero sense to me.
Was this his defense? That he was still messed up and concussed?

I seem to recall many people analyzing the video, looking at how he turned his skates etc. and then arguing it was an accident.

FWIW I agree it's totally out of character for Wideman and I entirely agree it wasn't pre-meditated.

But he did it. So I never had an issue with the penalty.
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