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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Yes. That is essentially what I meant.
I think he did. The official is moving backwards while Ovechkin is skating straight forward into the corner. With only this one view of the incident on hand, its hard to say what was within Ovechkin's field of vision. It looks to me more like a collision than a hit.
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I recall thinking Wideman brought his arms up at the last minute because it was clearly unintentional, not clearly intentional. You couldn’t see his eyes from any angle I recall seeing, but he was skating towards the bench after being stapled in to the boards. I think it is not a stretch to posit that his eyes were down
I don’t think Ovechkin did anything intentional because it just doesn’t make sense. I just find it perplexing that his focus was so intent on the player that he couldn’t see the ref.
And with this view, Ovechkin is definitely looking towards the corner starting at the dot and travels the full radius of the circle before he makes contact
The ref was drifting back, but was basically in the vicinity of the play and within Ovi’s field of vision. Direct, not just peripheral
Obviously we are watching it slowed down, but it is bizarre that he somehow didn’t “see” him