Agreed. Launching upwards ought to be a penalty on almost all occasions. If injury results, the suspensions should be for at least ten games. At least...

Caps fan here. He should’ve been called for tripping. I kept waiting for the whistle and then I said a loud bad word in disbelief when Backstrom still had the puck going over the blue line.

Sweep the leg Tommy!

It’s called follow through. He wouldn’t have left his feet and ended up on the bench if he didn’t launch.

look man, this is the third player hes knocked out of the game with a hit to the head, in the last nine games. aston reese has a broken jaw and a concussion, the jaw will require surgery. wilsons been headhunting, blatantly, and to devastating effect, and the NHL is consistently doing nothing about it.

Here’s Tom Wilson’s contribution to the winning goal: https://twitter.com/Allie874/status/991504128303075329?s=19

I’m a Caps fan and this should at the very least be a one game suspension. It should have been a major charging penalty during on the ice.

If the NHL outlawed all hits to the head (the only true measure against concussions- and also eliminates most subjectivity) does Tom Wilson have a job in the NHL?

Once again no mention of his hit on Wenny in the Columbus series. That shit warranted a suspension and didn’t even get a penalty.

Relax.

The deciding factor will be whether his feet left the ice. If the DPS says he launched he’ll get at least a one game suspension. (Hate that fucker. Unless, of course, he was on my team.) His little trip on Olli Mattaa was key to Ovechkin’s winner...

Left his skates to finish the hit literally to the point of going over the bench. Get this fucker off the ice.

How long will this league allow players to hand out unwanted and illegal licks like this?

If the NHL didn’t have its head squarely up its ass with player safety, Wilson would be done for the entire postseason. This is the third guy he’s injured with a hit to the head in ten games.

Definitely targeted his head. It’s what Wilson does

What a bullshit hit. I know hockey players are oh so tough, but concussions are a hot topic these days, and that dude 100% went head hunting. Shit has no place in ANY sport given what we know about concussions these days.

I hate the Penguins and want to see them lose in any and every possible way, but that guy is a shitheel and deserves suspension.

Pens fan here, so I know I’m biased but... man that sure looks like charging on Wilson’s part.

Third time will be the charm probably. It’s not like Wilson doesn’t have a history of headhunting.

It looks clean from center ice. From the bench angle, if Wilson hit Aston-Reese’s shoulder, it was barely a scratch. He drove into the head pretty straight line.