Tom Wilson appeal last 7 hours, Bettman to make ruling in a week. (upd: suspension upheld)

ThreeLeftSkates

Registered User
Nov 20, 2008
4,937
1,994
It's not just about points. When opponent can't match talent he starts to take some liberties. Wilson is there to calm down them. So far this season, pretty every team is dirtier with Caps than when Wilson was in the lineup. That's one thing, another one, it's chemistry with Ovy and Kuzy. Caps have tried 3-4 players at his position until now, nothing is working yet. Wilson is definitively a game changer for Caps.
No one outside of your fan base is going to feel sorry for you. He keeps doing the wrong thing time after time. Needs to change what he is doing or find another line of work.
 

shtorm2005

Registered User
Aug 9, 2015
6,493
6,506
Montreal, Canada
No one outside of your fan base is going to feel sorry for you. He keeps doing the wrong thing time after time. Needs to change what he is doing or find another line of work.
Im not asking for an empathy here, just wanted to prove his not some kind of replaceable bottom 6 player as poster before was suggesting.
 

DearDiary

🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷
Aug 29, 2010
14,623
11,402
Yes, but he won't.

It's possible they will. Wilson was singled out to have a meeting in the off-season about dirty hits, then proceeds to target a players head in the preseason.

The point of a suspension isn't just a punishment, it's to teach a lesson. Wilson has shown that he isn't learning and doesn't care about other players safety. This whole process shows that he's still trying to take blame off himself, which will go against him with the independent arbitration
 

hockeykicker

Moderator
Dec 3, 2014
35,065
12,502
It's possible they will. Wilson was singled out to have a meeting in the off-season about dirty hits, then proceeds to target a players head in the preseason.

The point of a suspension isn't just a punishment, it's to teach a lesson. Wilson has shown that he isn't learning and doesn't care about other players safety. This whole process shows that he's still trying to take blame off himself, which will go against him with the independent arbitration

but fwiw its the same arbitrator who lowered austin watsons suspension so who knows
 

Zirakzigil

Global Moderator
Jul 5, 2010
28,566
21,285
Canada
but fwiw its the same arbitrator who lowered austin watsons suspension so who knows
Biggest difference is that this is a suspension from the Player Safety department, none of those have gone to an arbitrator I believe. Bettman laid things out pretty well in his ruling, so Id be shocked if this was lowered. They used a pretty logical approach to this surprisingly. The NHLPA's stance has been that it shouldnt have been a suspension period, no way its going to be completely overturned. And Wilson has really shot himself in the foot with the amount of previous suspensions and warnings the NHL has given him.
 

mouser

Business of Hockey
Jul 13, 2006
29,285
12,586
South Mountain
It's possible they will. Wilson was singled out to have a meeting in the off-season about dirty hits, then proceeds to target a players head in the preseason.

The point of a suspension isn't just a punishment, it's to teach a lesson. Wilson has shown that he isn't learning and doesn't care about other players safety. This whole process shows that he's still trying to take blame off himself, which will go against him with the independent arbitration

I don’t think an independent arbitrator has ever increased a suspension in any major sports league.

So no, even though it’s technically possible, I don’t see any way it could happen. It would essentially require the NHL to argue to the arbitrator that the NHL and Bettman’s appeal ruling got the suspension wrong and it should be bigger. I don’t think an argument like that would be beneficial for the NHL.
 

Crease

Chief Justice of the HFNYR Court
Jul 12, 2004
23,976
25,014
This. The fact that he even appealed this at all is a perfect illustration of why it was essential that his appeal be shot down. He's still refusing to behave like an adult and take responsibility for his actions. He's shown absolutely zero commitment to or interest in reforming. He can't accept that Tom Wilson is the lone reason why Tom Wilson has to sit out for 20 games, and that reveals a lot about his psyche. He's a baby trapped inside of a caveman's body.

It's likely a money issue and nothing more. The suspension amounts to a 25% pay cut. The only way he can reduce that is by going through this process. Take whatever he is saying in public at face value because he's in the middle of this process, and public concessions can torpedo arguments. His argument to the league and now the arbitrator is probably just that the hit is not worth 20 games based on league precedent.
 

ZeroPucksGiven

Registered User
Feb 28, 2017
6,338
4,275
Yeah I stopped when they said that the hit was avoidable. Lol of course it is at super slow mo. From the moment when Sunquist deeped his shoulder and Wilson braced himself for an impact, fractions of second passed. But, yeah, it was easy to avoid the head.

Ahhh so you're closed minded and refuse to accept ANY additional info?
This is how we get "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" and "chemtrails" and other nonsensical conspiracy theories

For those studying psychology, this is called Cognitive Dissonance
"A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and so is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance, by making changes to justify the stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance, or by actively avoiding social situations and contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance.[1]"
 

shtorm2005

Registered User
Aug 9, 2015
6,493
6,506
Montreal, Canada
Ahhh so you're closed minded and refuse to accept ANY additional info?
This is how we get "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" and "chemtrails" and other nonsensical conspiracy theories

I accept additional info, but what additional info gives a statement "hit was avoidable because Wilson could take different angle of approach?" They know angle was incorrect because they know what happened next. But Im pretty sure, that without knowing the result, they couldnt guarantee Wilson will hit the head. So why change direction if you don't know yet what you will hit, especially when 0.1 of degree change target.

About your psychology nonsense, why you're attacking just me? You can find hundreds ppl in Wilson threads who blindly accuse him and gives labels. Strange behavior.

upload_2018-10-28_22-41-49-png.150439
 

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Ad

-->