“Tom has unresolved trauma and he likes to hurt people.”

Dan Carcillo can tell “somebody who’s been exposed to sexual, physical and verbal abuse in this culture...”

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“Tom has unresolved trauma and he likes to hurt people.”
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Some people have voiced opinions on Tom Wilson and his style of play, especially since Monday night when all hell broke loose and the Washington Capitals got in trouble again. 

Well, he didn’t get in trouble with the NHL’s Player Safety as much as people hoped, but you know how it went down. Wilson was fined $5000 for punching New York Rangers forward Pavel Buchnevich in the back of the head as he was facedown on the ice, while also throwing star Artemi Panarin to the ice in the ensuing scrum. Fans were expecting much more from the Head of Player Safety George Parros, seeing that Wilson is a repeat offender, who was suspended for seven games in March for a hit that injured Boston Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo. It was the fifth suspension of Wilson’s NHL career, the previous four coming in a 105-game span from 2017-18, which included a 20-game suspension for an illegal check to the head of Oskar Sundqvist of the St. Louis Blues back on Oct. 3, 2018, which was reduced to 14 games on an NHLPA appeal. After the league’s (poor) decision to only fine Wilson, the Rangers called out the league and demanded it fired Parros, and, as you know, the NHL fined the Blue Shirts $250,000 for public comments criticizing Parros and the league’s department of player safety.

When the two teams met again on Wednesday evening, a line brawl featuring all six forwards erupted on the ice in the opening seconds of the game. Three more broke out in the first period alone, including Wilson taking on Rangers defenseman Brendan Smith. On Friday ahead of the Caps’ game against the Philadelphia Flyers, Wilson stated that he’s looking to move on from these events and maintains that there’s nothing he can say to change people’s minds about his actions. 

This all prompted former NHL enforcer Dan Carcillo to voice his opinion on Wilson and make a diagnostic that he believes he has the right to make seeing that he used to be the player who constantly put himself in suspendible positions. Carcillo believes nothing will change in the league if the NHL’s Players Association does not demand a change in the way Parros makes the decisions on suspendible plays. Citing examples from the penal code in Finland where speeding tickets are based on the offender’s income to ensure the amount is still a deterrent even for the more fortunate, Carcillo suggests the league to use such a system since the $5000 fine means absolutely nothing for a multi-millionaire player like Wilson.

In addition, Carcillo makes a significant statement, saying he enjoyed hurting his opponents when he played in the NHL but that this mentality was due to traumas from his past. He believes that Wilson, who appears to like hurting his opponents, needs help to deal with his own past traumas and become a better player. 

“You can just tell: somebody who’s been exposed to sexual, physical and verbal abuse in this culture that ended up forming me in Carbomb, you can tell when you see somebody that is in that same situation. Tom has unresolved trauma and he likes to hurt people. And he has to figure that out for himself.”

To see Carcillo’s full comments on Tom Wilson and the current situation in the NHL, please, watch the two videos here below: 

Source: Twitter