Crazy how people can defend a guy when you can almost make a complete team out of the people who he hurt or laid a cheap shot

Yeah, so many of his hits are hits that you could easily defend if a normal player did it, but you can’t defend it when one player does it so much.

Give it a few more weeks. There will be a complete team cause Wilson will never learn

Hahaha oh my. Obsessed much?

I like Wilson’s game, I’m just trying to give an unbiased opinion on him

I also didn’t mean to come off as a dick but at this point it’s like beating a dead horse. We all know he has a bad history and he’s also been punished for it. Depending on your stance too lights or too heavy but last night was blown way out of proportion. But again at this point it’s just getting old.

I would love to see one of these for Marchand or Kadri? Either way that’s just where I stand on this.

I kind of agree with you. The NHL used the Wilson hit to completely ignore Erik Johnson delivering a way late, retaliatory, headshot to a player that had just came back from a concussion.

marchand should have his own i agree

I mean every headline had the guy laying on the ground like he was dead..... he played the next shift.

Did ej get suspended. Also reeves hit from behind made Wilson’s look like a pillow fight

Injuries and licks/kissing. He’s a dirt bag ha

Here's a video of the Blues kicking a goalie while he's down, elbowing two skilled players in their faces, punching rookies, and otherwise making a mockery of the idea of a preseason hockey game: https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/capitals/robert-bortuzzo-will-have-hearing-high-hit-michal-kempny

Human reaciton time is two seconds, according to traffic studies. If you watch the video of Wilson hitting Sundqvist the game after Bortuzzo elbowed Wilson and Kempny each in their faces, each at full speed, you can pause one second before the hit, and you can see that Wilson is lining up a clean, shoulder-to-shoulder check. Then Sundqvist tries to get a shot off rather than lose the puck, he falls over to his right, and he put his face in the way of Wilson's shoulder, without sufficient time to react. The result is also like a car accident, and it's really sad that it happened, but using something that Wilson did not physically or neurologically have time to react to as evidence to look at a more recent play that meets the criterion for an interference minor and call for a suspension based on your imaginings of Wilson's intent to injure? That's ridiculous.

Complaining that Wilson hit hard in the preseason after Bortuzzo elbowed WIlson and Kempny in the face in the preseason is ridiculous. You're being a homer.

Don’t forget visnovsky in the playoffs

That was a charge, but I don’t think it was head-contact

I'm going to disagree with you all night long on the Steen/MacK/EJ thing and you can call me biased all you like, I'd just throw it back at you so we may as well leave that one alone.

Marchand I can't stand, he's a dick and licking someone's face, especially with his pre-history is one of the grossest pieces of unsportsmanlike conduct I've seen.

As for Wilson. I like his game when he plays it right. He seems to have rushes of blood to the head far too often or certainly did when he was younger, and he often suffers for it now because of the precedent. If a ref sees a borderline call it's almost always going to go against him. Sometimes, in a game where hitting is a part of it, then there are going to be bad hits where a player gets it wrong or timing is a split second late. As said above we're in danger of throwing out the baby with the bath water. I'm not saying I have the answers either. Wilson IS a repeat offender but I don't like a guy necessarily getting calls go against him because of who he is. That said, sometimes you reap what you sow.

No EJ hasn't been suspended.

I can kind of understand how Steen's hit was unavoidable, but the fact that it happened right after a hit on MacKinnon and the fact that it’s also late makes me think that the intention was there. Maybe I’m just biased because of my hatred of golf-kart boy, but I’m also a ref in real life and I think that was suspension worthy.

As I say we'll have to agree to disagree and regardless of being a ref, the NHL doesn't agree. I'd forgotten the ex-STL factor as well lol.

Golf-kart boy has no track record so I guess I’ll agree with the NHL and give him the benefit of the doubt but If this was Wilson it would have to be atleast 20 games.

LMAO, yeah the intent is possibly more likely there with Wilson.

I should add that I agree EJ intended to hit Steen in a retaliatory fashion for the hit on MacK but I certainly don't think there was any intent to injure and the elbow was pretty much tucked in (or as much as it could have been). It was intended to be a clean hard retaliatory hit to let him know if you're going to dish it out to someone you're going to get it back. I would probably have called a 2 for interference as it was a bit late. I am also not in favour of guys going and deliberately chasing down players who deliver a clean hit to a star player, that's just the nature of the game. Even a star gets hit hard sometimes. Lining them up for a big hit after is fine. You should expect that to be coming as it's the nature of the beast, and again, it's part of the game. Steen's hit on Mack was pretty much clean (some are saying he left his feet but I think that was more on impact) and a 'doozy'. If it's a bad hit by all means go after the guy, if not then make sure you plant him on his ass later hard and fair which is what I believe EJ was trying to do. It doesn't appear to be in his nature to intend to injure, and as you said, no history. I liked how Cole stuck up for Jost the other night when Dunn was in his face, that kind of thing is fair enough to my mind. Nice to be able to have sensible discourse about it though.

I don’t know why the called it elbowing lol, but yeah he definitely clocked him in the head. I think the NHL nailed this one. Definitely should have gotten a major, but also shouldn’t have been suspended.