ON WEDNESDAY, Dennis Wideman, who plays in the NHL for the Calgary Flames, collided with a linesman and it’s quite a big incident.

I’ve only seen a short clip on the internet, so I don’t know if he meant it but, like in any sport, you can’t get away with assaulting an official.

In hockey, the referee and the linesman are on the ice and I think that they’re considered part of the playing surface, so if the puck hits them and there’s an advantage to either team, then it’s just part of the game.

You see it happen a lot when the puck slides around the wall and also when linesmen are standing on the blue lines.

And you have to try and do your utmost not to make contact with the officials. I’ve never seen anyone put in a hit on one and the only thing close to that I’ve ever seen is when a linesman tripped over someone’s skate after a face-off.

If they decide that Wideman hit the linesman on purpose, then I imagine they’ll come down hard on them.

Discipline is a big part of the game and against Bracknell on Sunday, I’d definitely say that we lost ours a little bit.

In the second period, we gave away 14 minutes and there was also a major and one for Matt Selby’s fight.

Sometimes, a team will realise that a game is getting away from them and they’ll start to play a much more physical game.

Then the other team gets frustrated and starts to think that they’re getting penalties called for things that shouldn’t be called.

It’s not always something that they’ll necessarily talk about but players may start being more physical to get everyone else going and it happens like that.

Bracknell definitely did that against us and managed to get back level at 3-3 at the end of that period.

We’ve been good at killing penalties though and we managed to calm ourselves down before the third period and then our top guys, like Aaron (Nell) and Jonas (Hoog) started scoring.

Aaron’s a very calm guy anyway – he was like that before he was captain, so he doesn’t really need to work that hard to keep us calm.