Tom Wilson said Wednesday that the hit he laid on Lubomir Visnovsky in the first period of the Washington Capitals‘ victory over the New York Islanders a day earlier was “fairly clean.”
Wilson, the Capitals‘ fourth-line right wing, checked Visnovsky off his feet at 5:54 of the second period and was whistled for charging. Visnovsky needed to be helped off the ice and did not return to the game, which Washington won, 2-1, in overtime.
“I had the puck and kind of shot it on net,” Wilson said, referring to an attempt he made seconds earlier that Visnovsky blocked.