Denis Wideman 20 Game Suspension

Following an incident with referee Don Henderson, one of my favorite defensman in the game has been suspended for twenty games. Now you may think that twenty is a small number, but there is about 25 games left in the season. So basically what happened was Wideman was skating back to the bench and crosschecked the ref. A crosscheck is when you push someone with your stick. Now many people were against the suspension like the NHL Players Association . Now you could make the argument that Wideman didn't do this intentionally. That argument would go like this. Wideman was checked very hard to the head, and could have been dizzy, and checked the ref. The argument against that is, Wideman lifted his arms intentionally, and crosschecked the ref. A hearing was held , and Gary Bettman upheld the suspension.