{"id":429751,"date":"2026-01-25T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:48:08","slug":"tom-wilson-donkey-kicked-in-balls-by-future-team-canada-teammate-connor-mcdavid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429751\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Wilson donkey-kicked in balls by future Team Canada teammate Connor McDavid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two weeks before they\u2019re set to report to the Canadian Olympic team as teammates, Tom Wilson and Connor McDavid got to know each other in a more intimate way as the Washington Capitals took on the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place, Saturday.<\/p>\n

During a second-period scrum near the net, Wilson showed McDavid just how sandpapery he\u2019ll be in the international tournament, cross-checking the superstar from behind twice. The crafty Oilers\u2019 captain didn\u2019t appreciate that much, so he skated backwards just a tad and then donkey-kicked Wilson directly in the family jewels with his left skate.<\/p>\n

Wilson doubled over in pain as the backwards kick connected with his full taint, sending him back to the Capitals bench in considerable pain.<\/p>\n

Not only did McDavid get the last laugh on this play, but he did on the scoreboard as well. McDavid had two goals and three assists in the Oilers\u2019 6-5 victory, notching his 13th career five-point game \u2013 the 12th most in NHL history. He also scored the overtime game-winning goal 47 seconds into sudden death, beating Capitals goaltender Charlie Lindgren on an uncontested breakaway.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

McDavid\u2019s ringing of Wilson\u2019s chimes is the second time in the past two weeks a player in a Capitals game has absorbed a painful blow where the sun doesn\u2019t shine.<\/p>\n

During a game against the Nashville Predators in mid-January, Lindgren attempted to poke-check a loose puck away from future Hockey Hall of Fame forward Steven Stamkos. He missed and instead pole-vaulted the goal-scoring winger high into the air, with his stick directly in Stamkos\u2019s groinal region<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks before they\u2019re set to report to the Canadian Olympic team as teammates, Tom Wilson and Connor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-429751","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\/429751","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=429751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}