Tom Wilson episode against the Rangers

[mrv52]

I’m sure you’d have the same energy if a Pens player two handed Ovechkin in the face and broke his jaw. That stuff happens in UFC, so after all it is entertaining, no?

When did anything like this happen?

 

[SergeiSamsonovFan]

Caps fans....when it’s you versus literally everyone else, maybe it’s you.

 

[JTToilinginToronto]

Don't forget that Wilson blindsided Visnovsky in the past as well.

 

[EpicDing]

What kind of p***y pulls another player's hair.

And then flexes at them from behind plexiglass

 

[4thTierSport]

haha you're kidding right? You call that kicking the goalie? What happens almost every game when there are people fighting for the puck in the crease. and yet deserves someone being choked on the ice face down and punched in back of the head.

Here is the thing, there is video showing the pitch fork, kicking at the goalie, the punch not hitting him in the back of the head nor being choked. You’re kidding me indeed.

 

[Leafsdude7]

Quite a few defend him any time the incident is brought up on these boards.

I'm not one to get into the whole "paint the fanbase" stuff, but this is ridiculous. Many Canucks fans still defend Bertuzzi. Lots of Leafs fans still defend Domi. It's hardly a Caps thing. They're just the one with the big d-bag on their team doing d-bag things right now.

 

[AlaBlueShirt]

Stop projecting.

Maybe she’ll make it

 

[Rsswmu]

I'm still of the opinion that this will get nothing, because both Panarin and Buchnevich never lost full mental faculties, and therefore the PR from the media is not going to shame them into doing something, especially to a player who is as important to one of their bigger money-making franchises as Wilson is to the Caps.

That's the league's history, at least. I'll be more than happy to be wrong.

Don’t disagree. What will happen vs what should happen are two different things.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Look at the responses to this tweet. They're getting spammed with it.

Scroll down and find the Elmo gif... I lol’ed

 

[danpantz]

If someone did that to Ovy, Caps fans would be calling for them to be banned for life.

Some of us remember how holier than thou they acted after Ovi Speared Frederic in the nuts because he got crosschecked. Something about respect.

Then the next game Wilson got suspended for a headshot on Carlo and Frederic scored the game winner.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Yuck

Physicality is one thing, but you have to have some respect for your fellow players

 

[dechire]

Sometimes people overreact when it comes to Wilson but when he really does cross the line he is the biggest piece of shit in the league and so I can't really blame people for the overreactions on the weak stuff. It's not "haters" it's a player doing dangerous shit on the ice and 99% of fans of any team being able to recognize that.

 

[Svechhammer]

The fact that the deleted tweet is now circulating virally is going to really piss off NHL headquarters.

You’d like to think that wouldn’t impact the disciplinary process, but in this context you have to wonder if it adds a bit of prejudice to the decision.

The whole thing was a clown show. From the cross check to the neck of Buchnevich and subsequent neck punch to a prone player to ragdolling Panarin head first to the ice while he's without a helmet to the ridiculous alpha male ape flex in the penalty box to this stupid display on Twitter, the whole thing has been a complete and utter embarrassment to the league tonight. And its all because of a known offender that the league just doesn't care to punish.

Its long past time that this man gets benched for a long, long period of time.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

Imagine being the guy that defends Tom Wilson right up until he kills someone, and then probably still defends him

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Entirety of the Rangers basically called him a POS in all of their pressers.

Let’s see how the league reacts.

As a fan of a team that Wilson has rekt players multiple times over the years this is the problem. They always respond after the game instead of during the game. That’s why I don’t even get mad at Wilson anymore. I get mad at my team for not responding to it.

Lindros used to do the same shit to us and then Kasparaitis hit him with a savage hit and that was the end of that.

 

[Zen Arcade]

Wilson could blow a guy away with a cannon he wheeled onto the ice and Caps fans would say it’s just part of his old fashioned, hard hitting style of game.

"Oh, so using a cannon is illegal now? Better suspend the entire Blue Jackets franchise then!"

 

[MattMartin]

I make too much money at my day job to be an analyst/work in hockey - but thank you very much. A hockey team would be very lucky to have me in their front office... but I’m good.

Didn't realize mopping up at the peep shows payed that well. The more you know.....

 

[Leafsdude7]

I disagree. I thinm that crosses the line. what he did goes beyond fisticuffs

Saying that Wilson is in the heads of opposing fans and that it was a lot of nothing is maybe questionable, but it's not something that's going to get someone in media relations overruled. As Tarheal points out, putting in the word "violence" in a promotional context pushes it over to a whole different level.

 

[Petey O]

I think he'll get like 25 games or something, then 40, and then most likely season bans until his contract is terminated.

Those are disgusting, cowardly actions. He can fight fine. Why does he have to play dirty? He's scary enough when he's playing hard but clean.

 

[Mick Riddleton]

Dirtiest and the most hated player in the game for the last few years. He is out to hurt people, total scumbag.

He does not care and knows the league will let him get away with whatever he does. Time to teach him a lesson, suspend him till next year.

 

[dr robbie]

Color me surprised?

Can't wait for the Caps fan base to shut up once the suspension is handed out. Already seems like a good chunk of them have accepted that it's coming. You know he is dumb when he does this right before the playoffs and they already locked a spot. Can't defend dumb.

 

[Sheppy]

I honestly used to like Wilson, but man, he’s become an absolute . I don’t even give a shit if I get warned, banned or whatever, he’s a prick.

Ah, I’m completely ok with how that came off with the emojis.

 

[madinsomniac]

That’s bc caps depth players been healthy. When ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Oshie, and Carlson are the guys getting hurt or being out - yes - it’s a little different than Garnet Hathaway being hurt.

Caps also have a new coach with shortest training camp in past 25 years - and in a whole mew system they’re still learning are still in first place.

thats what the cap hit stat tracks... how many high end players miss... the caps have been healthier than almost the entire league overall and have had fewer key players than most miss time.... Pittsburgh is top ten... Boston is higher than the Pens... Washington is virtually irrelevant in injury time missed compared to those two.... under half the man-games missed and millions less in lost cap hits

 

[TimmytheTank]

This is shades of Matt Cooke all over again. The question is just whether the league decides they care or not. I hope for skilled players of the league's sake they make the right call this time.

 

[RedHawkDown]

When did anything like this happen?

It didn’t. Way to miss the point.
Violence with a huge chance of severe injury isn’t my idea of entertainment in the NHL. That’s the point.