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mind ******* blown right now.

Yeah you said it better than me basically. It's just hard to justify it regardless of how you look at it. The lack of concussion protocol, the ability to walk back to the bench and having his head up the entire time, the intensity and accuracy of the hit. A lot of factors are against him at the moment. Forget that it's Wideman (who generally has had a good rep) and pretend like it's some random dude and then make the analysis.

Change Wideman's name with Raffi Torres and you have an entirely new bandwagon.

Yeah that's why I can't make a case for his defense as much as I've watched the damn clip probably over 30 times now. His reaction was just too harsh to be "COMPLETELY DISREGARD IT AS AN ACCIDENT SCREW THE LYNCH MOB". There's some responsibility in this. If the NHL didn't do anything about it, it would probably hurt their reputation. I watched his post game interview and some reports that he apologized quite a bit after the game. 8-12 games sounds maybe fair but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they went with the standard 20 games for hitting an official.

Even if they determine it to be an accident (it really could have been). It should be 8-10 games to stay in line with rules of protecting linesman and refs.

I've pretended to be dazed to draw a penalty before lol (if you ain't trying to sell, no one's going to buy). Although I never wrecked a linesman in the process. Speculation is both ways to be honest. I think we'd need a better camera angle to see his actual facial reaction as he's approaching the guy. I'm sure we'll get exactly that when the NHL does a video analysis to the public. They're usually really good about breaking things down with added camera angles.

I think we would need the opposite angle camera view to look what his line of sight and see whether or not he was "out of it" or directly staring at the linesman.

He also is completely unphased by the Nashville playing coming towards him at high speed and even slightly moves out of the players way. If he was out of it, he would have reacted to the player skating right towards him too.

I think it was intentional. You don't have to have a bad rep to lose it for a second. He certainly walked back to the bench fine and played the rest of the game. I also haven't heard anything about him going through a concussion protocol Why would you put both hands on your stick (in cross check position) well before approaching the bench? I mean look at the following image. He's no where close to his own bench and he's looking right at the linesman and he already has his stick in an approaching cross-check position.

I cant believe Joakim Andersson's thread is the hottest one right now on LGW

Kuznetsov added into ASG. Good stuff he deserves it.

Yeah these suspensions have been the precedent for a while now. I'm sure Ovie and Toews knew what was in store for em. I think if players don't want to go to the all-star game they should be firm with the fans to not vote for them. The league may not change the rules but a player can straight up communicate through the media. Wait. I just realized. Toews wasn't even voted in was he? He was picked by the NHL? If so couldn't he have declined back in december like people assumed Hank and Pav did to let Larkin play?

Tootoo vs Scott at the ASG xD

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25465009/alex-ovechkin-jonathan-toews-suspended-1-game-for-missing-all-star-game Toews and Ovie suspended 1 game.

He was probably afraid that Scott would challenge him to a fight and dropped out

Comeback Eichel

Ovie pulled out of the game. That's one captain down.

Pavel Datsyuk edition Awesome video. Check it out. https://amp.twimg.com/v/c9501dd4-726d-4524-9104-3b29c8e46894 A bit about Datsyuk's story and also many moments in this video (his young days and current days) we all got to witness live for 13 years . The background music at 3:50 gave me butterflies lol.

Yeah Jimmy's masks are some of the best I've seen in recent memory. The designer is goooood.

:'( Made me tear up a bit. Love those two. Is it? I thought it's just one video per player.

Yeah he was pretty good then. I think he was a top 5 goalie for a bit at the time and an all-star goalie (as in for the all star games) He actually reminds me a lot of Jimmy in a way. Jimmy was a proven season goalie for a while but he could never catch a break in the playoffs (part of the reason why I prefer Mrazek over Jimmy is because Mraz could/maybe be a playoff clutch goalie). Although Luongo did have one year where he had a good playoff run which Jimmy didn't.

He was a great season goalie but he had a major flub in one of the playoff seasons when Schnieder replaced him in goal. That's when the whole Schnieder/Luongo fiasco began. And I think a couple years before that he was getting some criticism during the playoffs too.

There's more to the story - Dylan Larkin edition just released. Enjoy.

Luongo was known to be a playoff flub for a while actually. Imo he wasn't that amazing of a goalie.

Yeah they could use him for sure - they have a lot of talent in their system right now especially with Eichel and O'rielly. Jimmy could be a huge boost for them. He's a good goalie just being outshined by Mrazek (who is playing like Carey Price lol)