Beauty Hit by Tom Wilson on Carrier

[shello]

Wilson gave a clean hit and the Habs looked soft and did nothing. Series changing hit and it took the momentum away from MTL. I love our young core, but the team needs some grit and size going forward. Either way, still very happy where they ended up

 

[pezpunk]

what? isn't the takeaway here to injure the opponent without getting called?

tying goal was scored while Carrier was skating back to the bench after having his bell rung.

winning goal was scored later in the period; Carrier didn't take another shift because he's obviously concussed.

let's just be real, in playoff hockey, you want to injure your opponents legally. game on

just because someone hands you a shovel it doesn't mean you have to keep digging.

 

[Son of Nogatco]

Charging .. left his feet off the ice .. and to the head.

Textbook Tom Wilson hit , thank you NHL.

 

[edevils]

what? isn't the takeaway here to injure the opponent without getting called?

tying goal was scored while Carrier was skating back to the bench after having his bell rung.

winning goal was scored later in the period; Carrier didn't take another shift because he's obviously concussed.

let's just be real, in playoff hockey, you want to injure your opponents legally. game on

It's not a matter of him being hurt. It was a clean hit. Period.


If you want to openly call for injuring players, that's just a reflection of a warped perspective.



Sometimes people get hurt. It's the price of being alive.

 

[Pavels Dog]

That's gorgeous.

 

[Herregud]

My issue with it is that Habs were given penalties when laying playoff style hits under the guise of "interference" or some other made-up on the fly penalty.

*snip*

Understanding, of course, that the Capitals were called for interference more than the Canadiens in this game, yes?

 

[BusQuets]

Reminds me of Rasmus Ristolainen's hit where he destroyed Ovechkin laying him on the ice. Beautiful.

 

[Mulletman]

Jesus tap dancing Christ! Looked like Carrier played hockey against his wife's boyfriend!

 

[Habssince89]

Totally change the momentum of the game, Caps tied the game right after this hit in the same shift.

Hopefully Carrier will be ok!!

Illegal hit to the head.

 

[Habssince89]

This is the same group that cheered Thompson hobbling off the ice.

Wrong again. They were booing Wilson coming back onto the ice

 

[domiwroze]

It is clearly headshot. Anderson did ask Wilson to drop, Tom didn’t want to. Anderson didn’t want to get a 2minutes when his team is ahead in the 3rd. Next time don’t ask if the refs don’t call it a penalty like it’s supposed to be.

100% going to be reviewed by the league, doubt anything comes out of it by the way this series has been officiated.

Beautiful hit, sucks that it wasn’t legal tho. Even the league took Carrier out the game themselves to put him in the dark room for commotion protocol, so they saw head contact too.

Matheson’s defensive masterclass right after hurts even more.

 

[LTIR]

Had Carrier stayed down after the hit the refs would've blown the whistle.

Enjoy the hit as long as the man is okay and not concussed.

 

[trick9]

Props to Carrier who took a hit to make a play. Big clean hit which clearly rocked him and certainly threw off the Habs who had no idea what to do after that. Just really bad defensive plays there.

This is how you turn the momentum around. Down 1-2 and a clean huge hit like that and suddenly you get the momentum and run away with it to win 5-2.

Hope Carrier is fine.

 

[Zalos]

Definitely a hit exactly on the line between headshot and clean. On the freeze frames, you can see him make contact with Carrier's head, but during the action it didn't look like a headshot.

It's fine, though, just get back at him next game.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Devastating hit

 

[TheSmokingMan]

Yeah, that's a hit to the head. Or neck, or jaw but I'm pretty sure it ain't legal in today's NHL.

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Please show the earlier frames and not just the frame that you selected to fit your illegal hit narrative.

From what I saw, Wilson glided into the hit (not jumping), crouched, and tucked his shoulder to bring the point of contact lower. He wouldn’t have done any of that if he was going for the head.

It’s unfortunate there was an injury on the play and I hope he’s ok, but I haven’t seen anything that leads me to believe it was anything more than a very large man winning a physics competition against a much smaller man.

 

[Acallabeth]

Definitely a hit exactly on the line between headshot and clean. On the freeze frames, you can see him make contact with Carrier's head, but during the action it didn't look like a headshot.

It doesn't look like a headshot on any angle. Some contact with Carrier's head doesn't automatically make the hit illegal, as it wasn't the main point of contact and Wilson made an effort to minimize even that.

Terrific Tommy should be praised around the NHL for his restraint and willingess to protect the much smaller opponent, limiting the hit to a series-altering instead of a franchise-altering one.

 

[Big Trout]

Props to Carrier who took a hit to make a play. Big clean hit which clearly rocked him and certainly threw off the Habs who had no idea what to do after that. Just really bad defensive plays there.

This is how you turn the momentum around. Down 1-2 and a clean huge hit like that and suddenly you get the momentum and run away with it to win 5-2.

Hope Carrier is fine.

That's Carrier in a nutshell... absolute warrior but he tend to get himself into vulnerable positions, or at least, for someone his size.

 

[CowbellConray]

Idk why Anderson continued to go at Wilson all series. Do not rile up a monster like that. They should have just let Wilson go through the motions and kept him sleeping.

Big hit, and Montreal really cant match that level of violence without letting the game get out of their hands

 

[Hostile Offer]

I'm not a big Wilson fan but that really is a beauty of a hit. Unfortunately it seems Carrier got even further injured by that which means we may have to keep playing without our best defensive dman.

 

[BallardEra]

Watching this clip of the Wilson hit, you can hear him screaming "HHHIIIIITTTT!!!!" or is it "HHHHEEAAADDDSSS" right before impact:

 

[SteelCityCannon]

Wilson is awesome. Great playoff type of hit. Dobes is a weenie.

 

[Caps8112]

curious to see what Anderson or Xhekaj might do in games 5, 6 and 7 keep your primary points of contact up!

If MSL was intelligent he would park them both on the end of the bench because unlike Wilson, they provide nothing but penalties and hurting their team. At least he was smart enough to bench Laine. Canadians front office should just tell him he need not come back with his absolute pathetic attitude. Dont know how is teammates could stand a guy like that with all the talent in the world putting in zero effort outside his canon shot.

 

[Random schmoe]

Watching this clip of the Wilson hit, you can hear him screaming "HHHIIIIITTTT!!!!" or is it "HHHHEEAAADDDSSS" right before impact:

I suspect you know, but many other non-Caps fans might not - Wilson calls out warnings to opposing players when he is coming in to to hit them.

Wilson responded, “I think nowadays, a lot of times, I just yell at guys. You know, when I’m going into a hit, and they maybe don’t see me, I just try and give them a heads up because the game has gotten so fast, the game’s changed a little bit, how guys come up playing it now, they’re maybe not expecting to be hit in the same areas of the ice as my first couple years in the league.”


Oake then asked Wilson to confirm that he actually yells “heads up” when he’s closing in on a player.


“I try to now, yeah,” Wilson said. “I mean, obviously, the situation, it kind of depends, but you know, if it’s a guy that’s going to be in a bad spot, I just try to let them know that I’m coming a little bit so they can defend themselves and it keeps those messy hits out of the game.”

 

[HeadLiceHatty]

Any news if Carrier is fine, hope the dude is back in there next game.