{"id":459094,"date":"2026-02-15T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/459094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:53:12","slug":"canadas-tom-wilson-tossed-for-fighting-late-in-win-over-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/459094\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Tom Wilson tossed for fighting late in win over France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Power forward Tom Wilson received a game misconduct late in Canada\u2019s rout of France for fighting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wilson and France\u2019s Pierre Crinon got into a scuffle following a whistle as both players\u2019 sticks and gloves were dropped before Crinon dragged Wilson to the ice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Despite the ref\u2019s attempt to break them up, Wilson managed to get up and tried to grab Crinon, but he didn\u2019t appear to throw a punch in the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fighting is not allowed at the Olympics as both players received game misconducts. Additionally, automatic suspensions are not handed out for fighting, but the joint NHL-IIHF disciplinary committee can discuss further discipline if required. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun, this will not be the case for Wilson. He\u2019ll be able to suit up for Canada\u2019s quarter-final game on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Re: Tom Wilson, as per the rule book here there is no automatic suspension for fighting. But if the joint NHL-IIHF disciplinary committee saw something that it wanted to address, it could have. This was not the case in this instance. Wilson will get nothing further.<br \/>He can\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2023117560217026732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A few minutes earlier, Crinon shook up Canadian forward Nathan MacKinnon with a high hit behind Canada\u2019s hit. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power forward Tom Wilson received a game misconduct late in Canada\u2019s rout of France for fighting. Wilson and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,42978],"class_list":{"0":"post-459094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-olympics-sports-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116076636097273460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}