{"id":427664,"date":"2026-01-24T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:10:08","slug":"tom-wilson-explains-why-he-got-a-10-minute-misconduct-and-was-effectively-tossed-from-flames-game-not-a-smart-play-by-me-in-that-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427664\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Wilson explains why he got a 10-minute misconduct and was effectively tossed from Flames game: \u2018Not a smart play by me in that situation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Wilson<\/a> was effectively ejected late from Friday night\u2019s game against the Calgary Flames after some hijinks between the two teams went a little too far in the third period.<\/p>\n

It all began with 8:25 remaining, as Wilson, without the puck, shouldered Flames defenseman MacKenzie Weegar hard in the neutral zone. As the whistle blew, Wilson came to a stop right near the Flames bench, where 6-foot-8 forward Adam Klapka<\/a> said hello by tapping Wilson on the back with his stick.<\/p>\n

Wilson didn\u2019t like this much, so he turned around and slapped Klapka in the head.<\/p>\n

Officials met after the play and decided to assess only Klapka a penalty \u2014 a 10-minute misconduct \u2014 ending his night.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t calm things down. Two minutes later, Nazem Kadri took a cheap shot at Jakob Chychrun as the Capitals defenseman got tangled up with a Flames forward and began falling to the ice. Kadri hit Chychrun from the blindside up near the neck, briefly injuring the defender and enraging the Capitals.<\/p>\n

With exactly six minutes remaining, Wilson drew a high-sticking penalty on Flames defenseman Yan Kuznetsov at Calgary\u2019s blue line, appearing to go down somewhat easily as the two made contact. The Flames bench was frustrated by what they thought was a dive by Wilson. So during the next stoppage, both Wilson and Weegar animatedly exchanged some words.<\/p>\n

The refs had enough after that confrontation and gave Wilson a misconduct, effectively ending his game with 5:23 remaining in regulation and the Capitals only up 2-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I got slashed a couple times from the bench,\u201d Wilson explained postgame<\/a>. \u201cSo, I guess\u2026 Maybe those guys were watching last year\u2019s shenanigans. I guess it\u2019s the game within the game. You know, guys chirping each other and having some fun with it, and competitive nature and emotion. That\u2019s why hockey is the best sport in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what happened with the ejection?<\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually chirping a player,\u201d Wilson replied. \u201cI was going out\u2026 Weegar was kind of chirping me, and I chirped him back. And then the ref, I guess, decided that it was a 10 for me. I was kind of in\u2026 In the thick of it all night. And I think maybe the ref had just kind of had enough of me and sent me to the room. Not a smart play by me, obviously, in that situation. But I didn\u2019t think I would get a 10 in that situation. But the boys did a good job closing it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, without Wilson, the Capitals would hold on and win 3-1 after Alex Ovechkin sealed the game in the final minute with an empty-net goal, the 918th tally of his career. The victory ended the team\u2019s four-game losing streak and came after an embarrassing loss to the Vancouver Canucks two nights before.<\/p>\n

The shenanigans Wilson refers to last season were when he had an epic battle \u2014 both hockey- and chirping-related \u2014 with former Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Andersson mocked Wilson\u2019s toughness.<\/p>\n

Wilson would then tease Andersson for his big head.<\/p>\n

Though a Saddledome rematch between the two did not happen on Friday after the Flames traded Andersson to the Vegas Golden Knights for Zach Whitecloud, defenseman prospect Abram Wiebe, a conditional first-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft, and a conditional second-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft earlier in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Wilson was effectively ejected late from Friday night\u2019s game against the Calgary Flames after some hijinks between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-427664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427664","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=427664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}