ARLINGTON, V.A. — Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson is proof that hockey players are a different breed. The 30-year-old took a Jakob Chychrun wrist shot to the left cheek in the first ...

O n December 7, Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson suffered a small fracture in the sinus cavity of his face after taking his teammate Jacob Chychrun’s wrist shot to the cheek. The puck ...

You could see the that situation was bad when Wilson got back on the Capitals bench with his face looking like it was trying to grow a second head from inside of his right cheek. It wasn’t until ...

Tom Wilson's two goals in the third period changed ... Wilson was hit in the left cheek by the deflected shot of teammate Jakob Chychrun during the first period, but to the surprise of his ...

Tom Wilson isn’t known for being the whiny type ... He played the rest of the game with a swollen and bloodied cheek, icing the injured area every time he was on the bench.

Tom Wilson has stepped up in a big way to provide offense, and that continued on Saturday. Wilson, sporting a bubble due to a broken sinus bone in his cheek, put up another two-goal game ...

There has been a lot of praise this season for the play of the Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson ... the Capitals’ Wilson received a puck to his left cheek off a shot which took him ...