Wideman Decision Expected Wednesday

[Looch City]

My news source tells me that he will be suspended from all playoff games this season.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

For those saying intentional:

What possible reason would make him do that? A missed offside?

I tend to agree. However, I also think that intentional or not, Wideman should be suspended.

You just can't cross-check a linesman, even if you don't realise you are cross-checking a linesman.

[kehatch]

Accidental or not that was reckless and it resulted in a ref getting hit in the numbers near the boards.

Wideman is responsible for himself when he is on the ice. The same way a player is responsible for his stick and avoiding the head on contact.

I don't buy the dazed excuse. I am sure he was a bit dazed after the hit. But he was fine 2 seconds after sitting on the bench and he finished out the game.

Personally I don't see a suspension coming. He isn't a dirty player, there was no resulting injury, and he was hit prior to the incident. But I do believe it was reckless.

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by Iggy City

My news source tells me that he will be suspended from all playoff games this season.

Team suspensions are rare, wow that doesn't look too good

[dino7c]

thats a good example actually...guy jumps out of a garbage can to scare someone and gets punched in the face (we have all seen that one)

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by MarkGio

20+ games is crazy talk. Sure, he could get suspended. But very few players get 20+ games

The league takes deliberate abuse of officials very seriously. If the NHL decides that was deliberate, Wideman is gone for a long time.

[AcGold]

Chris Butler 2.0, now with more entertainment value and less crying

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

That clearly looked like deliberate abuse of an official.

Also, he was clearly woozy after the hit he took. If I'm the NHL, I am asking some very blunt questions of the Flames about why he didn't go to the quiet room.

The NHL also has two dedicated "concussion spotters" at each arena for each game.

Maybe he wasn't groggy, Wideman once slipped during a penalty shot and landing on his own butt, he might not have been paying attention at all vs seeing fuzzy.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by kehatch

Accidental or not that was reckless and it resulted in a ref getting hit in the numbers near the boards.

Wideman is responsible for himself when he is on the ice. The same way a player is responsible for his stick and avoiding the head on contact.

I don't buy the dazed excuse. I am sure he was a bit dazed after the hit. But he was fine 2 seconds after sitting on the bench and he finished out the game.

Personally I don't see a suspension coming. He isn't a dirty player, there was no resulting injury, and he was hit prior to the incident. But I do believe it was reckless.

not a ref
doesn't have numbers
linesmans job to be out of the way

[getoverit]

Glad there is something to discuss other than the dismal play of the flames
As the world turns lol

[united]

The most shocking part of the whole thing is how one poster can have 37+ posts in a 4-page thread. I can't imagine having 37 posts in 2 weeks, never mind 1 thread in 1 hour. WTF

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

The NHL also has two dedicated "concussion spotters" at each arena for each game.

Maybe he wasn't groggy, Wideman once slipped during a penalty shot and landing on his own butt, he might not have been paying attention at all vs seeing fuzzy.

That can't be a justification.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

The league takes deliberate abuse of officials very seriously. If the NHL decides that was deliberate, Wideman is gone for a long time.

Well the officials didn't even kick him out of the game so long suspension is not happening

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

That can't be a justification.

So the linesman doesn't have to pay attention to his surroundings but Wideman does?

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

I tend to agree. However, I also think that intentional or not, Wideman should be suspended.

You just can't cross-check a linesman, even if you don't realise you are cross-checking a linesman.

If it wasn't intentional they can't suspend. It has to be "deliberate".

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

That can't be a justification.

Linesman is skating right into a players path backwards...no fault?

[CampbellsTransgressions]

You're all a bunch of idiots for disagreeing with my opinion.

Also, I hate poster X, Y, and Z and disagree with them because they had another argument with me in a different thread or on a different forum.

#Greentext: I'm really clever. (because I can't figure out how to add colour to a post)

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by united

The most shocking part of the whole thing is how one poster can have 37+ posts in a 4-page thread. I can't imagine having 37 posts in 2 weeks, never mind 1 thread in 1 hour. WTF

[Kjesse]

I had to watch this over and over, the brief clip in this thread does not tell the whole story.

The Video:

-Wideman gets hit hard into the boards
-He's clearly woozy as he heads to the bench and does a sort of hit his stick on the ice to make sure they know he's coming to the bench, its an odd way he does it though
-As soon as he gets to the linesman, he suddenly reacts and while it is not a purely defensive move, it also appears to be reacting out of surprise or urgency
-On the bench he looks out of it for a while

The Refs:

-Choose not to issue a penalty

The Circumstances:

-Unless something happened in the game where Wideman had a reason to be angry with the officials, it doesn't make any sense that he would have done this intentionally
-Wideman is not one with a reputation of anything like this.

The Result:

Who knows. Its hard to reconcile what happened.

[JetsFlamesFan]

According to cbssports.com, the last player suspended for abuse of official was Daniel Carcillo and he got 10 games. Not sure if there was a penalty on the play. It was determined to be intentional in that case, and I don't think he got a misconduct.

EDIT. just looked it up, Carcillo was given a game misconduct and his suspension was category II. He shoved the ref on the way to the penalty box