"He's Going To Hurt Someone": Why The NHL Won't Stop Its Most Dangerous Player
The Lead
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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Tom Wilson is a feared man. The Washington Capitals winger has served multiple suspensions during his NHL career and is considered by many to be the most reckless and dangerous hockey player in the entire NHL (while also being a very good player). And all of that is why the hockey world was thrown into turmoil this week after Wilson made two very dangerous plays in a game against the New York Rangers, one of which could have ended in a severe -- perhaps even fatal -- injury to Rangers star Artemi Panarin. The Athletic's Sean Gentille, who has followed Wilson's career closely over the years, joins us to discuss why the incident created such an uproar, who within the NHL is now coming under fire, and why Wilson's behavior is unlikely to change any time soon.
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https://theathletic.com/2566394/2021/05/04/like-him-or-hate-him-tom-wilson-knows-what-the-nhl-wants-and-how-to-get-away-with-it/
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| 0:46.0 | This week the hockey world all but exploded after an incident involving Washington Capitol's player Tom Wilson. |
| 0:59.0 | He took the New York Rangers best player, grabbed them by his hair, |
| 1:05.0 | the face planted them into the ice and did it a couple more times and no one said anything. |
| 1:10.0 | It's insulting, it's embarrassing for the league. Do we care about players safety or not? |
| 1:14.0 | What on earth is happening with the NHL right now? |
| 1:17.0 | George Paros completely dropped not only the ball, he dropped everything, dropped his drawers, dropped everything. |
| 1:24.0 | Today the Athletics, Sean Gentilly on why the incident sparked such a controversy, who is shouldering the blame, |
| 1:30.0 | but why things like this are almost certain to keep happening? |
| 1:34.0 | If the NHL didn't want this to happen, it absolutely wouldn't. |
| 1:37.0 | There's absolutely an element here that the NHL loves and I don't think it's ever going to leave entirely. |
| 1:43.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. It's Friday, May 7th and this is The Lead. |
| 1:54.0 | Well Sean, our conversation today feels like it's a little bit of a throwback to the old school days of hockey, you know, fighting conversations of goons and policing the ice. |
| 2:03.0 | So in honor of that, let me ask you, who's your favorite old school goon? |
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