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Tom Wilson episode against the Rangers

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WetHog said:
I am a Caps fan and I am not here to defend Willy. He is a big dumb animal.

Having said that, it is some comical shit reading the responses from NYR, PIT and BOS fans. Your teams have, and still do, employ some of the biggest turds in the NHL. You have no moral high ground in this hissy fit of a thread. None.
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Nah. I’m a Pens fan and I wish we had a turd like Wilson :)

We’re pretty soff.​
 
Herregud said:
The one thing I'll always love about Tom Wilson threads is how the discussion always starts at head contact and then reluctantly moves toward "Yeah, it was lower! But still!", once it's realized that it wasn't the head.
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The thing I love about Wilson threads are videos of him pulling a dudes hair and Capitals fans saying "well he should cut his hair"
 
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Herregud said:
The one thing I'll always love about Tom Wilson threads is how the discussion always starts at head contact and then reluctantly moves toward "Yeah, it was lower! But still!", once it's realized that it wasn't the head.
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Funny how you think this incident only involves head contact.
 
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CanadianSharks said:
Yeah, so have I. So don't act like you determine what is and isn't bad. The overwhelming majority disagree with you. You're basically alone on that island.
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Okay, so you and I have both thrown a punch. You looking at the one in this thread and telling me that's got life-threatening heat behind it? That's... fine if you are, I guess you can't rule out tiny chances, but I don't think it's a significant enough chance to call it "intent to injure".

That's really, as usual, my sticking point in Wilson threads. I think it's pretty common knowledge in most cases that you try not to punch the heads of players that are already on the ice. It does happen from time to time, of course, in the crease and after bigger hits where one or both players are knocked down, but generally speaking you expect fighters to follow fighting rules and that's one of them. That's a very reasonable thing to be upset about, but I would draw the line at upset. It doesn't need to be anything more than shitty for people to be upset and that's totally fine. It's kind of like punching a guy being held by the ref: there are two ways to do it, both are shitty, but one is a manner of gamesmanship that doesn't really break the boundaries of this sport and the other is a guy losing his nuggets in a way you can't look past or forgive. This punch is not the latter, so the overwhelming majority patting each other on the pack bleating "sociopath" doesn't really sway me.
 
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I wish Wilson knew that he could still be one of the most intimidating and effective players in the league even if he didnt do this clown show s***.

Somethings gotta give here. Eventually he will seriously injure someone, its inevtiable.
 
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Herregud said:
The one thing I'll always love about Tom Wilson threads is how the discussion always starts at head contact and then reluctantly moves toward "Yeah, it was lower! But still!", once it's realized that it wasn't the head.
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Odd, in this thread I've seen caps fans go from saying he hit him on the cheek, to he hit him on the nameplate, to he hit him with a gloved hand its no big deal.
 
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Svechhammer said:
Silly Caps twitter, thinking that deleting a comment will make people forget

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Major yikes. Laughing at an injured player? If someone posted that here, they'd get infracted for that.

...and this is the official team twitter. Pathetic.
 
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WetHog said:
I am a Caps fan and I am not here to defend Willy. He is a big dumb animal.

Having said that, it is some comical shit reading the responses from NYR, PIT and BOS fans. Your teams have, and still do, employ some of the biggest turds in the NHL. You have no moral high ground in this hissy fit of a thread. None.
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I'm a Canes fan, am I allowed to call 'Willy' a sack of shit, or are you still salty about Warren Foegele?
 
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ReddestRum said:
He's got his stick under Buch's neck and then punches his head down on it after the play is over.

Like.. f***ing why?
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There is no “why” with this guy. But it works for the Caps obviously. League has no answer for this psycho.
 
HTFN said:
Okay, so you and I have both thrown a punch. You looking at the one in this thread and telling me that's got life-threatening heat behind it? That's... fine if you are, I guess you can't rule out tiny chances, but I don't think it's a significant enough chance to call it "intent to injure".

That's really, as usual, my sticking point in Wilson threads. I think it's pretty common knowledge in most cases that you try not to punch the heads of players that are already on the ice. It does happen from time to time, of course, in the crease and after bigger hits where one or both players are knocked down, but generally speaking you expect fighters to follow fighting rules and that's one of them. That's a very reasonable thing to be upset about, but I would draw the line at upset. It doesn't need to be anything more than shitty for people to be upset and that's totally fine. It's kind of like punching a guy being held by the ref: there are two ways to do it, both are shitty, but one is a manner of gamesmanship that doesn't really break the boundaries of this sport and the other is a guy losing his nuggets in a way you can't look past or forgive. This punch is not the latter, so the overwhelming majority patting each other on the pack bleating "sociopath" doesn't really sway me.
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Note: I'm not disagreeing with your post, just curious:

Do you think it was extremely reckless of him, even if his "intent" wasn't to injure? To the level of significant supplemental discipline, that is.
 
WetHog said:
Yup. We are all fans of a sport that encourages, demands and applauds grown me to fight while on ice wearing skates at the smallest slight or when your team is down 4-0. The hand wringing when a hockey player gets out of control is disingenuous at best.
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totally unrelated to your other point he is talking about but once again have at it
 
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