Photo credit: Gary Wiepert
Late in the second period, Washington Capitals rookie forward Tom Wilson delivered another crushing hit. This time it was to Buffalo Sabres forward Ville Leino. It was a beauty.
You can guess what happened next.
Marcus Foligno skated over and forced Wilson to fight. Because every clean hit must be avenged! Or something.
Here’s the entire scrap.
CSN Washington color man Craig Laughlin was disgusted.
“Foligno goes after Wilson after a beautiful check,” Locker said. “I mean I don’t understand that. If you finish a good check, there always seems to be retribution. In the game of hockey, there’s supposed to be hitting.”
“I don’t understand,” Laughlin continued, genuinely confused. “I never got that.”
Foligno was given an instigator penalty and the Caps got a two-minute power play. They failed to convert.
While the fourth line is struggling, these are the types of positive plays they can bring to help the team.
Also: that hair.
I dig Wilson's hair after the fight pic.twitter.com/QzLrHDY5kt
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) December 29, 2013
Russian Machine Never Breaks is not associated with the Washington Capitals; Monumental Sports, the NHL, or its properties. Not even a little bit.
All original content on russianmachineneverbreaks.com is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)– unless otherwise stated or superseded by another license. You are free to share, copy, and remix this content so long as it is attributed, done for noncommercial purposes, and done so under a license similar to this one.
Share On