After Tom Wilson was nailed with his fifth career suspension, we wondered about all the other suspensions in Caps history. The past decade has been well documented, but before that, we couldn’t find a comprehensive list, so we got to work.
First we combed through multiple newspaper archives to the Caps’ inaugural season in 1974. The earliest suspension we found was on September 9, 1975, when Mike Marson threw his stick at the Toronto Maple Leafs’ bench during a preseason game in London, Ont. He was suspended one game. The next incident we found was on Nov.