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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
I've watched the incident several times. I just disagree with people's characterization of how much 'slamming' was happening, or even targeting of the head.
It was an aggressive melee of two guys of much different sizes, of which the smaller initiated.
I'd call this a 1-2 game suspension MAX.
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He slams him to the ice twice. There's no interpretation, no characterization, that is exactly what happened.
Here's what actually happened, in order, so you're not confused:
- Net front battle, Buchnevich (sp?) goes down, falling on Wilson's stick.
- Wilson, now on top of Buchnevich who is face down on the ice, punches him.
- A Ranger's play see's Wilson punch him, and goes to pull Wilson off.
- A Caps player then jumps on the Rangers player, pulling him off Wilson.
- Wilson gets up, and punches the Rangers player laying on the ice.
- Panarin see's Wilson punching, and wraps his arms around him from behind.
- Other players get involved, Wilson and Panarin end up locked up face to face.
- Wilson pushes Panarin's helmet off, and then slams head first him to the ice.
- Wilson then punches Panarin while he's on top of him.
- Panarin tries to get up, and Wilson slams him to the ice again.
- The refs jump on Wilson, and while they do, Wilson is still on top of Panarin, still throwing punches to a guy on the ice without a helmet.
Any indication that Panarin initiated without a helmet or that he initiated
at all, in fact, is BS. Wilson is responsible for the entire thing. It was literally a series of situations Wilson initiated where multiple players tried to pull him off someone he was on top of and punching, and he switched his aggression to focus on them.
Wilson is solely responsible, Wilson repeatedly endangered players in compromising positions, Wilson is a repeat offender, and Wilson should have been suspended for the rest of the season.