Logan Thompson is honoring Washington Capitals’ greats — and also a legendary Tom Wilson moment — in his new mask for the Screaming Eagle third jerseys.
Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Olie Kolzig, Peter Bondra, Braden Holtby, and John Carlson were all honored on the red mask that features splashes of navy and white. But the real star of the bucket is Tom Wilson, who is featured on the back plate above the team’s Capitol Dome logo.
Wilson, normally handsome, looks grotesque in the portrait, and it’s from his memorable night in Montreal on December 7, 2024.
During that game, Wilson was struck in the face by a Jakob Chychrun shot during the first period. The Capitals’ alternate captain went down to the locker room, but returned minutes later with his cheek beginning to swell to the size of a tennis ball.
“It doesn’t look so hot,” Wilson said.
Not only did the right wing manage to come back to the outing, which was heroic in itself, but he scored twice in the third period — both the game-tying and game-winning goals — to give the Capitals a 4-2 comeback victory.
“If that was me, I don’t know if I’d be back in the game,” Logan Thompson said that night.
That night, Capitals players voted Wilson the player of the game and nicknamed him “Quagmire,” the creepy, big-cheeked character in Family Guy.
Thompson, who pranked Wilson for much of last season, sported a shirt of Wilson’s swollen face several times at the rink.
Thompson’s new mask is just his latest memorable design. For road games, Thompson had the numbers of every Caps defenseman painted on the back while his mask to be worn with the team’s home jerseys is a tribute to the movie Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
