Hey everybody! Remember WidemanGate? I sure do. For those who maybe didn’t watch any hockey at all last season or simply drank away the pain of what could have been at the trade deadline, here’s a brief summary:
Dennis Wideman was the recipient of a heavy hit into the end boards by Nashville Predator Miikka Salomaki. Wideman picked himself up off the ice and skated uneventfully to the Flames bench to shake it off. Or he would have had he not tried to skate directly through linesman Don Henderson an action that was subsequently blamed on the effects of having just sustained a concussion.