{"id":28083,"date":"2018-04-30T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=28083"},"modified":"2018-04-30T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T02:14:36","slug":"washington-capitals-tom-wilson-will-not-have-hearing-with-dops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/04\/30\/washington-capitals-tom-wilson-will-not-have-hearing-with-dops\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals Tom Wilson Will Not Have Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Players Safety (DOPS) has announced that Washington Capitals Forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wilsoto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Wilson<\/a><\/strong> will not have a hearing for his hit on<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dumoubr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Dumoulin<\/a><\/strong>. He was not given a penalty for the hit during the game. Wilson was suspended\u00a0twice during the 2017-2018 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No hearing for Tom Wilson hit on Brian Dumoulin: report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QrIZ9aws82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/QrIZ9aws82<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZOxGfGREwR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZOxGfGREwR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hockeynight\/status\/990998647985922049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wilsoto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Wilson<\/a>\u00a0Will Not Have Hearing<\/h1>\n<p>Tom Wilson will not have a hearing with the DOPS after his hit to the head of Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dumoubr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Dumoulin<\/a>. The hit occurred 4:26 into the second period. Dumoulin did not return to the game after the hit. Dumoulin was on the ice for the morning\u00a0skate, but was wearing a non-contact jersey.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Wilson had 14 goals and 21 assists for 35 points in 78 games. He also added 187 minutes\u00a0in penalties. His possession\u00a0numbers were 50.4 percent Corsi with a relative Corsi of 3.1 percent. He has two goals and four assists in eight games in the 2018\u00a0Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Over his five-year NHL career, Wilson has played only for the Washington Capitals. He has put up 35 goals and 69 assists for 104 career points in 391 games. He was originally\u00a0drafted in the first round, 16th overall of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<h1>What This Means For the Future<\/h1>\n<p>The Capitals are happy to hear that one of their first line forwards won&#8217;t be suspended. He is currently averaging 19:30 of ice-time during the playoffs and averaged 16 minutes of ice-time during the regular season. Wilson is currently playing on the first line with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/ovechal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuzneev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evgeny Kuznetsov<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals is knotted at one game apiece. Game 3 will be Tuesday night in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Main Image Credit:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/674972758\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/674972758?et=Av_0pzgoTpNIxCLm_girig&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=8Ihuqvgo1vKYXhTYzNsICTGmXAkEiqQpPEb_lX42Azw=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Players Safety (DOPS) has announced that Washington Capitals Forward Tom Wilson will not have a hearing for his hit on Brian Dumoulin. He was not given a penalty for the hit during the game. Wilson was suspended\u00a0twice during the 2017-2018 season. No hearing for Tom Wilson hit on Brian Dumoulin: report https:\/\/t.co\/QrIZ9aws82 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,15],"tags":[1019,1562,75],"class_list":["post-28083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-capitals","tag-brian-dumoulin","tag-tom-wilson","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Colton Praill","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}