Sean Gentille: There's a simple solution to the NHL's Tom Wilson problem

If you spend too much time on Twitter, follow the NHL or enjoy(ed) Kanye West, this is a rough stretch. A rough, rough stretch indeed.

If you do all of those things — and this is where, dead behind the eyes, I meekly raise a hand — the past few days have been more unbearable than most. Each day seems to bring a new thread in Kanye’s ongoing, public, full-scale, red-pill meltdown, just like each day brings a fresh, Tom Wilson-fueled debate over the propriety of head shots in professional hockey.

These issues are unrelated. They’re also unfolding simultaneously. Tom Wilson hits someone, or Kanye tweets something, and the cycle restarts. We parse it, and we react with indignation or eye-rolls,…