{"id":66424,"date":"2026-02-15T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/thats-hockey-canadas-wilson-shuns-olympic-tradition-and-brawls-during-win-over-france\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:05:03","slug":"thats-hockey-canadas-wilson-shuns-olympic-tradition-and-brawls-during-win-over-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/thats-hockey-canadas-wilson-shuns-olympic-tradition-and-brawls-during-win-over-france\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That\u2019s hockey\u2019: Canada\u2019s Wilson shuns Olympic tradition and brawls during win over France"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Wilson and Pierre Crinon ejected after brawl<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fighting is rare at Winter Games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Tom Wilson shunned tradition on Sunday, deciding to fight during his team\u2019s victory over France in their Olympic ice hockey game.<\/p>\n<p>While fighting is a regular \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/jun\/28\/would-bringing-back-nhls-brawling-enforcers-make-hockey-safer\">and tacitly accepted<\/a> \u2013 part of professional ice hockey, it rarely occurs on the Olympic stage. But Wilson dropped the gloves late in Canada\u2019s 10-2 rout of France on Sunday, tangling with Pierre Crinon, who had delivered a forearm to the head of teammate Nathan MacKinnon minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/15\/tom-wilson-fight-ice-hockey-olympics-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson and Pierre Crinon ejected after brawl Fighting is rare at Winter Games Canada\u2019s Tom Wilson shunned tradition on Sunday, deciding to fight during his team\u2019s victory over France in their Olympic ice hockey game. While fighting is a regular \u2013 and tacitly accepted \u2013 part of professional ice hockey, it rarely occurs on the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018That\u2019s hockey\u2019: Canada\u2019s Wilson shuns Olympic tradition and brawls during win over France\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/thats-hockey-canadas-wilson-shuns-olympic-tradition-and-brawls-during-win-over-france\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018That\u2019s hockey\u2019: Canada\u2019s Wilson shuns Olympic tradition and brawls during win over France\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}