Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson added to his reputation as a heavy hitter on Friday with a monster hit that injured Colorado Avalanche defenseman Nikita Zadorov.
Tom Wilson levels Avalanche defenseman with a massive hit
Was it legal?
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Wilson had just come off the bench in the second period as Zadorov was swinging around behind the Avalanche net. Zadorov was behind a Capitals forechecker and didn’t see Wilson coming until it was too late, if at all.
If that looked violent in real-time, wait until you see it in slow-motion:
The question in play here, obviously, is if principal contact was with Zadorov’s head and whether it was targeted. I’ll let you be the judge on what could be a difficult one for the Department of Player Safety to parse out:
Zadorov was slow to get up and left the ice for the locker room. Wilson was not penalized for the hit.
UPDATE: Zadorov will not return to Friday’s game with what the Avalanche are calling a “head injury”.
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