05-04-2021, 10:04 AMTommySalami Wrote: Feel free to disagree with my analysis, but watch the videos without any bias towards Wilson. I think he's a POS when he goes head hunting but this is no where near a lifetime/season suspension IMO. Although the league may give one because they feel pressured.

This is coming from someone who has no affiliation to the caps whatsoever but watch the replays and angles and this isn't as bad as it looks at all.

1. At first I thought this was Tom Wilson cross checking buchnevich in the back of the neck/head which I think many people also thought. If you watch the replay it's clear Wilson's stick is underneath buchnevich, not on top.

Now when you look at the reverse angle and know Wilson's stick is not driving his head into the ice, both of his hands are come down beside Buchnevich's head not on top of it. It looks bad but it's two guys being physical and I didn't see much cheap about the way Wilson came down on Buchnevich

2. The punch - He punches him in the shoulder/back. I'm sorry but that kind of thing happens all the time in scrums. It's not nice but it's not anything to be throwing suspensions around

3. The Panarin incident. Once again, not nice but Panarin came in to defend his teammate and literally jumped on Wilson's back. At that point he's committed to an altercation with Wilson and Wilson straight overpowered him. Hair pulling is dirty but it's not lifetime suspension dirty.

I think this is the correct take, I would also just like to add this is another reason every team needs some who can lay out damage to police dangerous players like Wilson. People like Wilson only understand violence, you gotta speak that language if you want the problem to stop. Is the league in general moving away from this style, towards a different type of hockey sure; but that's another conversation entirely. Currently in Hockey this is part of the game, and teams need to structure accordingly to deal with the problem and danger this poses to their players.