Sure, Tom Wilson can be the Washington Capitals\u2019 enforcer, but he is and wants to be so much more than that. <\/p>\n
In the second period of the Caps\u2019 home opener against the visiting Boston Bruins, Wilson was being his usual self: getting under opponents\u2019 skins and delivering hits left and right. <\/p>\n
Then, he crushed Mark Kastelic into the boards and the winger had had enough. <\/p>\n
Kastelic went after Wilson, grabbing him in order to push him to drop the gloves, but Wilson stunned everyone and did the unexpected. He turned down the fight. <\/p>\n
He not only brushed away Kastelic: he just kept spinning away from him, like he could not bother wasting time on him.<\/p>\n
According to Capitals insider Sammi Silber, this is something Wilson has been working on: turning down fights, especially when the time isn\u2019t right. <\/p>\n
\u201cI talked to Willy a lot about this. There\u2019s a time and a place, he tells me, and the second period of a 0-0 game where the puck\u2019s bobbling and Caps need some offense is not the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, fans would have love a good Wilson fight. <\/p>\n
But it seems like it was a good thing for Wilson to focus on producing for his team. In the third frame, after Bruins\u2019 David Pastrnak gave Boston the lead, Wilson tied it up at 1. <\/p>\n
The Bruins however got the lead back later in the third frame, and eventually won the game 3-1. <\/p>\n
I bet Wilson wanted to fight then, but he did make sure to end the game with one other MASSIVE hit, this time on Michael Eyssimont. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sure, Tom Wilson can be the Washington Capitals\u2019 enforcer, but he is and wants to be so much…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":288429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[148224,293,62,148223,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-288428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-mark-kastelic","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tom-wilson","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115342533239547802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}