ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Noah Laba\u2019s \u201cwelcome to the NHL\u201d moment hit him like a freight train.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That freight train\u2019s name was Tom Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The notorious Capitals agitator upended the Rangers rookie in the neutral zone in the second period of a 1-1 game in Washington at the end of last month. Laba was still doubled over on the ice in pain as Wilson capped the sequence with a go-ahead goal in the eventual 6-3 Capitals victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially him scoring after, too,\u201d Laba told The Post before the Rangers took on the Ducks at Honda Center on Monday night. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of just like, \u2018What just happened?\u2019 A lot of respect for him, and it was a clean hit. I just have to be more aware and get my head up in those situations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Noah Laba\u2019s \u201cwelcome to the NHL\u201d moment hit him like a freight train.\u00a0 That freight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[186,4823,385,978,99,358],"class_list":["post-418213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-exclusive","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}