Reaves signed photos after Wilson hit

The late blindside hit from Vegas Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves sent Capitals forward Tom Wilson crashing down. Wilson’s helmet popped off, and his head bounced on the T-Mobile Arena ice. Reaves was ejected from Tuesday’s game, a 5-3 Vegas win, and Wilson, who sustained a concussion, will miss Thursday’s game. Washington coach Todd Reirden said Wilson is “day-today” while he recovers.

And Reaves? He signed 16-by-20 inch copies of a photograph that shows Wilson dazed on the ice as Reaves is escorted away, posts on social media indicated. On each picture, Reaves wrote the message he gave reporters after Tuesday’s game: “He ran into a lion in the jungle.”

Inscriptagraphs, a Las Vegas-based memorabilia dealer, called the photos the “must have Christmas Gift of the Year” in a since-deleted tweet and Instagram post. Though apparently no one will be getting them.

Vegas Golden Knights spokesman Eric Tosi said in an email that the photos “were not distributed and they have been destroyed.” Inscriptagraphs removed the signed photographs from its website and eBay on Thursday evening.

Isabele Khurshudyan, The Washington Posst