{"id":482578,"date":"2026-02-16T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482578\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:01:07","slug":"canadas-tom-wilson-wont-face-suspension-for-olympic-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/482578\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Tom Wilson Won’t Face Suspension For Olympic Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

There will be no supplemental discipline for the fight between Team Canada\u2019s Tom Wilson<\/a> and Team France\u2019s Pierre Crinon<\/a> at the end of Canada\u2019s 10-2 win on Sunday per Sportnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>.\u00a0The Olympic rulebook has long been strict about fighting, even calling it out as \u201cnot part of international hockey\u2019s DNA\u201d. Fighting majors result in automatic match penalties and are reviewed for supplemental discipline after the game. In this case, neither player will face a suspension for their actions, keeping two of the top enforcers in the tournament on the ice.<\/p>\n

Wilson has been strategically rotated onto Canada\u2019s top line for much of the tournament. His intense physicality has filled a gap next to superstar Connor McDavid<\/a> and Canada\u2019s youngest player, Macklin Celebrini<\/a>. Wilson has earned three points in three games in that role, though he\u2019s averaged less than 12 minutes of ice time a game \u2013 partially thanks to an ejection in the third period on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Crinon has long been known as a bruiser. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound defenseman currently has 66 penalty minutes in 29 games in France\u2019s Ligue Magnus, the country\u2019s top league. He served a seven-game suspension earlier in the league\u2019s season for knocking out an opposing goalie with a punch during a scrum. Cronin racked up 95 penalty minutes in only 36 games of the 2023-24 Ligue Magnus season.<\/p>\n

This decision will allow Wilson to stick with Canada as they head into the quarterfinals. At their current pace, Canada seems likely to face one of Germany, Latvia, or Czechia. Crinon will bring his enforcer presence to the qualifying rounds against Italy and Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be no supplemental discipline for the fight between Team Canada\u2019s Tom Wilson and Team France\u2019s Pierre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,204228,85,26830,244631,61561,4791],"class_list":{"0":"post-482578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penalties","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-team-canada","14":"tag-team-france","15":"tag-tom-wilson","16":"tag-washington-capitals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}