Wilson received a match penalty and was ejected from the game for his hit on Senators center Curtis Lazar in Wednesday's 2-1 win over Ottawa, Isabelle Khurshudyan of The Washington Post reports.

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In what has in hindsight been viewed as excessive punishment for a violent, albeit legal, hit by the power forward, Wilson received a match penalty for the body check on Lazar that occurred late in Wednesday's contest. "It was maybe a little shoulder on shoulder, but I'm a big guy. I'm 220 pounds, "Wilson remarked after the game. "If you're not expecting to run into that, then you're going to get a little bit of whiplash. It would have been a different story if I'd came in flying and finished right through him. That would have been a lot bigger of a hit, but I'm aware that he can't see me, I'm aware about all the rules and plays, I'm aware about blindside hits, and I try and just keep my arms at my side, take away his space, track the puck and create a turnover. That's all I'm trying to do." Although he does not have a point in his last four outings, Wilson has accrued 32 penalty minutes and 14 hits during that time, so remains a decent producer in deep leagues that count such peripheral statistics, but has limited value in standard formats.