05/05/2021 21:47
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 05/05/2021 21:47
An incredible situation was experienced on Wednesday night in Argentina in the NHL, the American ice hockey league.
The game between the New York Rangers and the Washington Capitals, in the mythical Madison Square Garden, started in an unusual way: they took out of the middle and, without making any contact with the puck (the disc with which it is played),
six players began to play the pineapples.
There were three on each side.
Only two players from each team were left out of the brawl.
With all four umpires closely following the actions, the Rangers' Kevin Rooney, Colin Blackwell and Phillip Di Giuseppe
dueled
Carl Hagelin, Nic Dowd and Garnet Hathaway of the Capitals.
That was not all: in the first five minutes of the game they ended up counting
six bare-knuckled fights
and 13 penalties.
The first period, at the end, closed with a balance of 20 penalties, 100 penalty minutes awarded and 15 of them charged to player
Tom Wilson
.
And not a goal was scored.
All sporting events should start this way.
pic.twitter.com/iRtsI5wcHp
- Cousin Sal (@TheCousinSal) May 5, 2021
Why such a disaster?
It was all about
a rematch against the Capitals
, particularly Wilson.
In Creole, the New York players were for the
vendetta
of what had happened a couple of days ago.
Two days ago, the same teams had been involved in an extremely aggressive brawl.
And in the battle unleashed then,
someone broke the codes
.
Because in ice hockey it is tradition that if there is a fight, there is a fight.
Yes, of course getting involved in a punch match carries a penalty, but it is only a temporary penalty.
And there are unwritten codes that indicate, for example, that an invitation to fight is not rejected, just as it is known that
the fight ends as soon as one of the players falls to the ground.
Returning to what happened last Monday, the anger remained because beyond the general clashes,
Wilson unfairly and repeatedly hit Pavel Buchnevich
, one of his rivals,
on the neck
.
Tom Wilson punches a prone Pavel Buchnevich to touch off a fracas, then flex in the penalty box (r @DanMyers) pic.twitter.com/6p8B9TVckV
- CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) May 4, 2021
But that was not all: then he grabbed the hair of
Artemi Panarin
, another Rangers player, and threw him to the ground on his back and then
continued hitting him
.
Those who cover the actions of the NHL day by day assured that the gravity of the action would have well deserved an exemplary sanction,
why not for life
for Wilson, a player who had already incurred assaults.
And yet they
barely fined him $ 5,000
, the maximum allowed by the collective bargaining agreement.
His rival, on the other hand, will not play for the remainder of the season and not a few believed that one of those blows
could have endangered his life.
#AllCaps Tom Wilson should be suspended indefinitely from the NHL.
Tom Wilson grabs #NYR Artemi Panarin by the hair pulling him down as he body slams Panarin head first into the ice.
Enough is enough!
Ban him for life.
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- Hockey Hound (@HockeyHoundShow) May 4, 2021
Wilson was not among the players who started the game, but that did not exempt him from being wanted by his rivals.
As soon as he entered the field, Rangers defender
Brendan Smith went to fight directly.
In those minutes, Anthony Bitetto (New York) faced Michael Raffl and Ryan Strome braided with Lars Eller.
All the fights occurred
in the first 4 minutes and 14 seconds.
Brendan Smith goes after Tom Wilson on his first shift #NYR pic.twitter.com/SOm4gI0D4Q
- Rob Taub (@RTaub_) May 5, 2021
