Washington forward Tom Wilson isn't exactly known as the calmest player in the NHL. But an incident during Sunday's preseason game caused him to lose it to the point where he was ejected from the game, and it appears it had nothing to do with one of the opposing players.
As you can see in the video below, a scrum ensues near Carolina's bench after a whistle. Wilson seems to get infuriated over something and is ejected from the game.
During a post-game interview, Wilson claimed he was chirped by one of Carolina's coaches.
"I was pretty calm until some words came from their bench and it wasn't the players so we'll leave it at that. He's clearly an emotional guy but I don't think, you ask anyone around the league, coaches chirping players is appropriate."
It seems Capitals head coach Todd Reirden agrees with Wilson's assessment.
"That is something that I strongly, strongly disagree with is a coaching talking to a player from the other team and I had some comments for their bench as I walked off between periods. You don't get a chance to play anymore when you are a coach so you shouldn't be talking to someone who is playing and to me, that is off-limits and that is something I have always believed as a player, as a coach. No coaches should be yelling at players from teams because you have no chance to go out and do anything about it and hockey is a special game and in respect to the battle and the compete and enthusiasm and all the passion that is out there, but it is for the players and when the coaches get involved, to me that is wrong"
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