Tom Wilson (ice hockey player)

Tom Wilson
Date of birth	March 29, 1994
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	99 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 43
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 1st round, 16th position Washington Capitals
Career stations
2010-2013	Plymouth Whalers
since 2013	Washington Capitals

Thomas "Tom" Wilson (born March 29, 1994 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League since July 2012 . With the team he won the Stanley Cup in the 2018 playoffs .

Career

youth

Tom Wilson was born in Toronto and started playing ice hockey at the age of two. He was trained by his father for the first five years of organized ice hockey before later going through the youth sections of the Toronto Junior Canadiens in his hometown. In 2010, the Plymouth Whalers then selected him in the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 27th overall position, so that at the beginning of the 2010/11 season he played in one of Canada's three top junior leagues. He also represented Team Canada Ontario at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011 during his debut season, where he won the gold medal with the team. In the summer of 2011, they participated in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament , with the team again taking first place.

In the 2011-12 season, his second in the OHL, scored Wilson in 47 games 27 points scorer and was, having previously the CHL Top Prospects Game had participated, the end of the season from the Washington Capitals at the 16th position in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft selected . Only a few months later, the attacker signed an entry contract with the Capitals, but initially stayed with the Whalers in the OHL. There he was appointed assistant captain at the beginning of the following season and increased his statistics significantly to 58 points from 48 games.

Washington Capitals

Immediately after the end of the OHL season, the Canadian was called to the NHL squad of the Washington Capitals and made his debut in the first round of the playoffs . After three missions for Wilson and the elimination against the New York Rangers , he was transferred to the Hershey Bears , the farm team of the Capitals from the American Hockey League (AHL) and also came to three playoffs there.

In preparation for the 2013/14 season, he prevailed in the Capitals squad and subsequently played all 82 regular season games, in which he contributed 10 points. After playing two games for the Bears in the AHL at the beginning of the 2014/15 season due to an injury, he was back in the Capitals line-up for the rest of the season.

In the 2018 playoffs , he achieved the first Stanley Cup win in franchise history with the Capitals . The attacker then signed a new six-year contract in Washington in July 2018, which should earn him an average annual salary of $ 5.17 million.

Style of play and bans

Because of his physique, Wilson is considered a classic power forward , while at the same time he has above-average technical skills, which explain his relatively high draft position and which make him appear regularly as a scorer. In addition, the attacker maintains a physical style of play, due to which he is regularly penalized in the game and collects well over 100 penalty minutes in an average NHL season. However, he regularly attracts attention with checks against the head, in the gang (boarding) , late checks or similar overly tough actions, so that he has already been banned by the NHL several times. He received increased media coverage for the first time as part of the 2018 playoffs , when he checked the head of Zach Aston-Reese in the third game of the Conference semifinals against the Pittsburgh Penguins . Aston-Reese suffered a concussion and a fractured mandible while Wilson was suspended for three games. That incident was followed by a similar check against Oskar Sundqvist , who also suffered a concussion and shoulder injury in a pre-season game in September 2018. The NHL has now issued a suspension of 20 games against Wilson, which, after pausing 16 games, was reduced to 14 games by a neutral referee .

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2011 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
• 2012 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2018 Stanley Cup win with the Washington Capitals

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010/11	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		28	3	3	6th	± 0	71		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		49	9	18th	27	+17	141		13	7th	6th	13	+10	39
2012/13	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		48	23	35	58	+36	104		12	9	8th	17th	+8	41
2012/13	Hershey Bears	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		3	1	0	1	-1	6th
2012/13	Washington Capitals	NHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		3	0	0	0	-1	0
2013/14	Washington Capitals	NHL		82	3	7th	10	+1	151		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Hershey Bears	AHL		2	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Washington Capitals	NHL		67	4th	13	17th	-1	172		13	0	1	0	-2	25th
2015/16	Washington Capitals	NHL		82	7th	16	23	+3	163		12	0	1	1	-3	13
2016/17	Washington Capitals	NHL		82	7th	12	19th	+9	133		13	3	0	3	-2	34
2017/18	Washington Capitals	NHL		78	14th	21st	35	+10	187		21st	5	10	15th	+11	31
2018/19	Washington Capitals	NHL		63	22nd	18th	30th	+11	128		7th	3	2	5	+1	2
OHL total				125	35	56	91	+53	316		25th	16	14th	30th	+18	80
AHL total				2	0	0	0	± 0	0		3	1	0	1	-1	6th
NHL overall				454	57	87	144	+33	934		69	11	14th	25th	+4	105

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2011
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	Canada Ontario	WHC			4th	0	1	1	6th
2011	Canada	Hlinka Memorial			5	1	2	3	6th
Juniors overall					9	1	3	4th	12

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Personal

Tom Wilson has a brother five years older and two years younger, the latter also playing ice hockey and also being drafted by the Plymouth Whalers in the OHL Priority Selection in 2012.

Web links

Commons : Tom Wilson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Washington Capitals website
• Tom Wilson at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Andre McCarren: Washington Capitals' 19 year-old Tom Wilson one of the youngest in the NHL. (No longer available online.) WUSA9.com, October 28, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 11, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Chuck Gormley: Tonight 'a dream come true' for Wilson. (No longer available online.) Csnwashington.com, November 23, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 11, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Capital Sign Tom Wilson. capitals.nhl.com, July 19, 2012, accessed March 11, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Capitals Recall Tom Wilson from Hershey. capitalstoday.monumentalnetwork.com, October 28, 2014, accessed March 11, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Capital Re-sign Tom Wilson. nhl.com, July 27, 2018, accessed on July 28, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Tom Worgo: Capitals' Tom Wilson Tries to Shed Tough Guy Label for a New One: Go-To Guy. nytimes.com, April 30, 2018, accessed November 20, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Capitals 'Tom Wilson gets 3 games for hit on Penguins' Aston-Reese. cbc.ca, May 3, 2018, accessed on November 20, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Capitals forward Tom Wilson's 20-game suspension reduced to 14. sportsnet.ca, November 13, 2018, accessed on November 20, 2018 .