from Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post,

The blood had barely hit the ice before the boos came down, and when the fans at PPG Paints Arena realized who had caused the damage, they wailed like 18,634 members of a 13th-century Scottish army. One of their own, Pittsburgh Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese, was struggling to get up from the ice, and when he did he could only bend at the waist, barely able to skate. The man who put him there was already on “Wanted” posters on telephone poles around this town: Tom Wilson.

This is life on the edge in the NHL, and particularly in the Stanley Cup playoffs, where hits live in super slo-mo and the men who deliver them must justify each blow. Wilson entered this season as an important but easily overlooked piece of the Washington Capitals. He now finds himself, after the Capitals’ come-from-behind 4-3 victory in Game 3, on the minds and lips of everyone who cares, even casually, about this second-round series.

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If you missed Wilson's hit last night, watch it below.