And yet he wasn't coming out of the lineup. Coaching staff certainly wanted to shelter him, no argument there, but they also saw merit to what he brought. When we had a lead, he typically wasn`t involved in protecting it. When we needed offense though, he typically was. I suspect that during an prolonged offensive drought, he probably gets more icetime.
He rounded out the bottom pair nicely. We miss what he did for the bottom pair imo. When Chabot was on the bottom pair, he wasn't needed there, but now that Chabot has rightfully moved up, it sure would be nice to have the 10 mins Wideman could provide in games where we struggle to score.