PITTSBURGH -- Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson will have a hearing with the NHL Department of Player Safety on Wednesday for a check to the head in Game 3 that broke the jaw of Pittsburgh Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese.
The hearing that could have big implications for Game 4 of this increasingly brutal best-of-seven series.
With just over 10 minutes left in the second period on Tuesday night, Wilson lined up Penguins Aston-Reese with a hit near the Capitals bench. Aston-Reese fell to the ice, bleeding, as the impact carried Wilson onto his bench.