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Last preseason GDT Caps vs Blues @ 3pm
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Tuesday October 02, 2018, 07:19:36 AM Eastern ---Remember when Ted and the league sat Ovie down after Campbell cried about his arm and told him to stop hitting people and wuss it up?
This is what Willies getting paid 4m a year for. Who is gonna have a modicum of enforcements or detterant against cheap shots or targeting, Lars Eller??
While what you say is correct to an extent, without another physical threat in the line up, this is Willie is the only thing we have before hiding behind the league drinking soy milk.
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Everyone here loves Wilson but he does need to tone it down. Since he entered the NHL I have always thought he had no control of his body when he was hitting. There is such a thing as a controlled hit. Wilson does everything at full speed. I hope he figures it out or he will be sitting a lot of games.
Wilson is getting a lot of heat for his hits deservedly so but this hit shows that players in today's game are unaware of their surroundings. These guys think they can skate across the middle if the ice with their head down and not get hit. On this particular hit if Wilson got him on the shoulder or chest and not the head Sundqvist still would have been destroyed and possibly still injured. It is a fast game you gotta keep your head up.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Tuesday October 02, 2018, 09:39:01 AM Eastern --- Everyone here loves Wilson but he does need to tone it down. Since he entered the NHL I have always thought he had no control of his body when he was hitting. There is such a thing as a controlled hit. Wilson does everything at full speed. I hope he figures it out or he will be sitting a lot of games.
Wilson is getting a lot of heat for his hits deservedly so but this hit shows that players in today's game are unaware of their surroundings. These guys think they can skate across the middle if the ice with their head down and not get hit. On this particular hit if Wilson got him on the shoulder or chest and not the head Sundqvist still would have been destroyed and possibly still injured. It is a fast game you gotta keep your head up.
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Exactly.
Bettman wants the figure skaters to lolligag all over the ice drinking their soy-milk without getting hit by some “neanderthal”,
It cracks me up that in almost all if not in every hearing, the responsibility is placed on the player makes the hit, regardless of the other players actions, positions, or even acting
Mickstix:
Don't get me wrong.. The hit was bad. Wilson needs to learn how to squat down and really crush these guys who think it's fine to skate through the center of an NHL rink, with their head down.. :wackysmile: Just wondering when the sentence will be handed down and for how long? He probably drank beer in HS/College too? So, under the jail is where Im expecting him to serve his time.. :angel:
Beaglefan2:
Bad hit and what was really stupid was that it was the last pre-season game!!! There has to be an unwritten rule that there is very little hard hitting in preseason in general and in the last game in particular. Just get through the last game with no injuries. The only guys hitting should be the guys that are still trying to make the team. Wilson gets a 7 on the stupidity scale for making the hit in general and a 10+ for making it in the last preseason game.
richkrt99:
Okay...Bad hit, and I'm not advocating this is the way to do it, but this is PART of what makes Wilson a serious threat to other teams. The problem is all the circumstance and history with Wilson and his rep. Wilson is big, strong, fast and hits people incredibly hard, but that's part of his skill set. He has to be smarter about it - especially the timing of this...so meaningless.
However, Some responsibility has to fall on the guy not paying attention to the game...the guy that got hit. You can't just skate around with your head down...CARRYING the damn puck in the other teams zone. You should EXPECT to get hit there. You DESERVE to get hit there. You don't deserve to get hit in the head or to be injured, but if his head had been up, it would not have been hit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this hit in particular, but for your own sake, you have to have situational awareness and protect yourself by paying attention. If there is a sport left where you have to be aware and protect yourself, its this one.
Scott Stevens made a career hitting people on the blue line. He would have smiled at him and skated beside him as they helped him off the ice and told him..."That's what you get for crossing MY blue line. That blue line is MINE, and I OWN it. Remember that mother f*#ker! The NEXT time you cross it, I'm going to hit you harder!" And I damn sure bet the next time he skated into the Stevens zone, the guys f'n head would have been up.
Dale Hunter would have chatted the guy up about it...."remember that hit? the one where Scotty beamed you to another dimension....damn you looked like a real powder-puff laying on the ice like that. Sure hope you don't get hit like that again. Maybe you should quit this game...it's kinda rough."
All fond reminiscing aside, I realize that was a different era and the game has changed, but that was one of the things that made Stevens a great player and a threat and an effective deterrent to opposing scorers. Same goes for Wilson. Being a big physical player is PART of what makes him an effective hockey player. Unless the WNHL changes the rules to the "No Hitting League", then guys are going to get hit, and the bigger stronger ones are going to hit harder....(that's why you want them on your team)
Again, not defending this hit in particular, but defending hitting in the NHL.
I don't want to see anyone injured or career's ended or whatever, but part of it is on you. Part of the responsibility for your own safety SHOULD be on your own shoulders. We have the same problem with half the boarding calls. I realize the game is much faster and players are bigger and stronger, but half the boarding "issues" are caused by guys turning TOWARDS the boards just before being hit.
Stupid by Wilson though - for the Caps sake and his own, he has to know if ANYONE can't do this, its him.
I'd love to see Willy score more goals, but I sure as hell don't want him to stop hitting people and rely on strictly offensive prowess for the rest of his career.
I'm thinking Willy gets 10 games for this. That's gonna hurt.
I noticed the caps claimed Jaskin from the Blues off waivers....is this coincidence or is he a part time BIG BODY to fill in while Willy is in jail?
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