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Fist Period: Caps, Rangers fight right out of gate

The New York Rangers and Washington Capitals combined for 72 penalty minutes in the first 4:14 of their game on Wednesday night, their first meeting after Capitals forward Tom Wilson injured Rangers star Artemi Panarin earlier this week. There were six separate fights to start the game, including a line brawl one second after the opening faceoff. Both teams put […]

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‘There’s already a biased opinion:’ Capitals forward defends Tom Wilson after latest controversy

The Washington Capitals are playing the New York Rangers Wednesday one game after Tom Wilson was handed a $5,000 fine for his role in a scrum between the teams. They're trying to make up points on the first-place Pittsburgh Penguins, and they'll be short-handed without Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Samsonov, plus TJ Oshie is returning from a one-game absence […]

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Rangers fire team president John Davidson and general manager Jeff Gorton in shocking move

In a shocking turn of events, the New York Rangers fired team president John Davidson and general manager Jeff Gorton on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet and confirmed by the USA TODAY Network, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. Associate […]

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Rangers want NHL head of player safety ousted

Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The New York Rangers have called for the removal of George Parros, head of the NHL Department of Player Safety, after the league opted not to suspend Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson for a pair of incidents in a game Monday night. Wilson was fined $5,000 by the NHL for punching Rangers forward […]

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NHL fines Washington Capitals’ Tom Wilson $5,000 for instigating massive brawl against New York Rangers

The NHL Department of Player Safety fined Capitals forward Tom Wilson $5,000 after he set off a massive brawl Monday night during Washington's 6-3 victory against the New York Rangers. The fine is the maximum allowable amount under the collective bargaining agreement, though there was no mention of any potential suspension for Wilson's role in instigating the fight. The incident happened in […]

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Capitals’ Tom Wilson avoids suspension for sucker punch, body slam in Rangers brawl

Tom Wilson skates by discipline once again. The Capitals’ forward sparked a skirmish during Monday night’s matchup vs. the Rangers after he sucker punched a prone Pavel Buchnevich in the second period, but the NHL deemed that Wilson’s conduct, somehow, wasn’t worthy of suspension. Instead, he was fined a maximum $5,000 for the punch. Wilson’s punch on Buchnevich, though, wasn’t […]

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Rangers respond to Tom Wilson’s sucker punch that sparked brawl: ‘Zero respect’

The Rangers held nothing back after another Tom Wilson incident. In the second period of Wednesday night’s Rangers-Capitals matchup, the controversial Capitals winger nailed a prone Pavel Buchnevich in the back of the head during a stoppage in play. The play sparked a massive brawl between Wilson and Rangers players, with Wilson grabbing a helmet-les Artemi Panarin by the hair and […]

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