Poll: Poll: Dennis Wideman - Intentional or No?

[HereComeTheCats]

 

[HereComeTheCats]

Looks to me like he wasn't looking up and didn't see the linesman until the last minute. At that point, his replacement player had already come off the bench and the Nashville player was carrying the puck right at him. If Wideman took a wider turn around the linesman, he would have run into the puck carrier and been called for too many men.

 

[DunkinTennisBalls]

 

[bmoneynova]

definitely intentional to me

 

[NickleDimer]

How is that not intentional?

 

[HereComeTheCats]

I don't think he intended to cross check a linesman. I think he was skating back to the bench and hit the blurry mass that was standing between him and the bench door. His other option was a too many men on the ice penalty.

 

[NorCalVU10]

If you don't intend to cross check a linesman, you check to see if he is okay.

 

[HereComeTheCats]

Wideman gets 20 games. NHL had no choice. Gotta defend the refs. My guess is it gets appealed and reduced.

 

[DunkinTennisBalls]

Wideman gets 20 games. NHL had no choice. Gotta defend the refs. My guess is it gets appealed and reduced.

My guess is no one cares.

 

[NorCalVU10]

Wideman gets 20 games. NHL had no choice. Gotta defend the refs. My guess is it gets appealed and reduced.

Isn't it in the rule book that its min 20 games for touching an official? Don't see this being reduced.

 

[HereComeTheCats]

20 games if there was an intent to injure. 10 for no intent.

 

[bmoneynova]

I don't think you cross-check someone that blatantly without intending to injure them