Chris Wideman Speaks on Controversial Uber Video From 2017

"What I think is lost in that whole thing is, you know, we said some things and got carried away and said some things that weren't really that outside the box of what guys typically talk about. We're talking about work, we're frustrated, we were losing and it was unfair that it was taken out on one of our coaches and the way that it looked was really just very disrespectful. After going through everything I went through after and being able to make it back to the NHL, I'm almost thankful in a way that it did happen because I learned a lot about myself, how to persevere and overcome, but also learned a lot about the world and how things really work."

"There's a few more things that happened that I can touch on when I retire, that happened that I don't need to bring up. But there's a whole side of this that, there was some other stuff said and recorded and released, that no one ever saw. It didn't come out of my mouth, I can say that much." - Chris Wideman